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You can get an OV code signing certificate for 84$ per year - https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certificates/ https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certif
by oleks637 4y ago
You can get an OV code signing certificate for 84$ per year - https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certificates/ https://www.ksoftware.net/code-signing-certificates/
I'm using it for my app, and I never had any issues. You don't need to incorporate a company to get this certificate ( https://support.sectigo.com/PS_KnowledgeDetailPageFaq?Id=kA01N000000brb0 https://support.sectigo.com/PS_KnowledgeDetailPageFaq?Id=kA0... scroll down to the Individual Validation Requirements).
If your ID has your address printed on it, then you are lucky and can just take a photo of the ID and yourself holding the ID. If you don't, then you need to go to a notary and sign a special form provided by Sectigo.
Sectigo doesn't even need to call you anymore, as it was about 5-10 years ago.
The downside of the OV certificate is that Windows Defender will show a blue pop-up saying that your app might put the user's PC at risk. Good thing is that it will eventually go away after some time. For my app it took about a year.
- dvzk 4y agoMaybe it’s just me, but I would never go through a random certificate authority like “K Software”. Users are not cryptographically verifying the developer’s signing identity, they are trusting KSoftware’s attestation that the signed binary is authentic.
- lwkl 4y ago> If your ID has your address printed on it, then you are lucky and can just take a photo of the ID and yourself holding the ID. If you don't, then you need to go to a notary and sign a special form provided by Sectigo. That's the problem ID's don't have addresses printed on them in most European countries. So you have to get a notary and this is really expensive. There is a system to proof your place of residence here without a notary but these companies don't accept them.