Get your own Code Signing
Certificate
Signing your code with an Authenticode Digital Signature
using a Code Signing Certificate assures
your customers that the program really comes from you
and hasn't been altered or corrupted since it was created
and signed. An Authenticode Digital Signature serves as virtual
"shrinkwrap" for your program. After you sign your
program, if it is tampered with the
Authenticode
Digital Signature will break and alert customers that
the program has been altered and is not trustworthy.
To sign your code you need an Authenticode Code Signing Certificate,
which you get from a Certificate Authority. The Certificate
Authority will take steps to verify you are who you say you
are before issuing the certificate.
We recommend Comodo certificates, they do the job at a
keen price (all code signing certificates are effectively
the same, paying more won't get you a "better"
certificate!). We resell Comodo certificates, and at a
cheaper price than you can buy them direct from Comodo. If
you purchase your certificate through us we also supply a
far easier means of retrieving it than is usually the case. We
resell one, two and three year certificates. Buy them using
the links below, but before you do,
make sure you read the rest of this page, it will
make your life much easier if you follow the simple steps
described here.
The purchase process is a little complex with choices you
have to make that you may not necessarily understand. The
process also differs depending on what browser you use, with
different browsers storing certificates and private keys in
different ways in different places. Confusing? It sure is,
so we have put together a step by step guide to purchasing
your certificate from Comodo.
Click here to
open the guide (opens in a new window). You can refer to it
as you go through the purchase process.
Please note. Unless you really know what you are
doing you MUST use Internet
Explorer to purchase your certificate (even if it
isn't your normal browser and you don't actually like it).
Using Firefox is possible, but you then have to go to the
trouble of manually extracting your private key and
certificate from Firefox's certificate store before it is
usable in the code signing process. You can't use Chrome or
Safari at all (or at least you couldn't at the time of
writing), and we couldn't work out how to get the
certificates out of Opera's certificate store, so we don't
recommend you use that). Use Internet Explorer, it really is
the simplest way!
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