Authenticode Certificates

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by TylerK (This site is so "educational") on Friday, 05-Oct-2012 19:16:13

Hi all,

For you Windows software developers out there: Is there any benefit to having an Authenticode certificate? If so, what is that benefit, and is there any free or extremely low-cost way to get one (e.g., using open-source software, etc)? I'm now a freshman in college studying software engineering, and was wondering about this because, from what I've heard, it's something that's useful when delivering Windows software to the customer.

Thanks,
Tyler

Post 2 by The Lil Dark Piggy (This site is so "educational") on Saturday, 06-Oct-2012 12:50:53

Are you talking about SSL certificates?

Post 3 by TylerK (This site is so "educational") on Saturday, 06-Oct-2012 12:52:35

No...I'm talking about Authenticode (code-signing) certificates.

Post 4 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Saturday, 06-Oct-2012 14:13:17

It is worth having because they varify the software is genuine.

Post 5 by TylerK (This site is so "educational") on Saturday, 06-Oct-2012 18:31:54

OK, so now I know it's worth having. Now...what's a low-cost (or free) way to acquire one? Would something like EJBCA (http://www.ejbca.org) (which is an open-source J2EE-based PKI certificate authority that can run inside an app server like JBoss or Glassfish) be able to create them?

Post 6 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Sunday, 07-Oct-2012 11:59:38

It should, yes.