Reminder: Check your Code-Signing Certificate Expiry Date! (February 24, 2010)

All,

Is your code-signing certificate due to expire? I would strongly suggest to
check this now! It is important you renew your certificate before the
expiry date. Once the certificate expired, you are unable to code-sign your
applications and/or installations!

Example: http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22891

Please note that Comodo does not send renewal reminders!

To avoid having to resign software every time your certificate expires, use
the timestamping service. When you sign code, a hash of your code will be
sent to Certification authority to be timestamped. This means that you will
not need to worry about re-signing code when your Digital ID expires.
Microsoft Authenticode allows you to timestamp your signed code so that
signatures will not expire when your certificate does.

As a service to our customers, we have partnered with Comodo, Inc., a
leading WebTrust Compliant Certification Authority, to offer Comodo's range
of Code Signing Certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) based
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to qualified Lindersoft customers.
If your Verisign or Thawte certificate is due to expire soon, Lindersoft
customers can switch to a 3-Year Comodo certificate for just $200 instead of
$500.

Do the math: a Verisign Code Signing Digital ID costs $499 for 1 year, $895
for 2 years and $1,295 for 3 years. A Thawte Code Signing Digital ID costs
$299 for 1 year and $549 for 2 years. A Go Daddy Code Signing Certificate
costs $199.99 for 1 year, $359.98 for 2 years and $509.97 for 3 years.

http://www.lindersoft.com/products_s...y_services.htm

--
Friedrich Linder
Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

SetupBuilder is Windows 7 installation -- "point. click. ship"

-- Official Comodo Code Signing and SSL Certificate Partner

always wanted to ask, is it possible, with the very same certificate,
make digitaly certificated document also, like .xml ? not just exe / installation.
thanks
Darko

Darko,

> always wanted to ask, is it possible, with the very same certificate,
> make digitaly certificated document also, like .xml ? not just exe /
> installation.

Here are two interesting links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229745.aspx

http://forums.comodo.com/code-signin...-t13001.0.html

Friedrich

obviously yes...
thanks
Darko

> always wanted to ask, is it possible, with the very same certificate,
> make digitaly certificated document also, like .xml ? not just exe / installation.
> thanks

Darko,

In addition to what Friedrich has already stated - a popular implementation
of code signing XML files is with PAD Files (PAD files - helps authors
provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a
standard way).

The Association of Shareware Professionals provide detailed instructions on
how to do this at this web page.

http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/spe...ign_padgen.php

Also, I provide references and help topics for code signing PAD files in
the CHM version of this popular blog.

Product Description - App Data UAC Safe, MFG - Encourager Software
Internet Link - http://profileexchanges.com/blog/?p=120

David

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http://encouragersoftware.com/profile/clarlinks.html
http://www.profileexchanges.com/blog/

very good resources...
thanks
Darko

Hi Friedrich,

Thanks for the reminder - my certificate expires tomorrow - and I wasn't
aware<g>

Thanks,
Peter

> Thanks for the reminder - my certificate expires tomorrow - and I wasn't
> aware<g>

<G> ;-)

Friedrich

Hello,

When I try to buy a certificate I am getting a failure message
https://secure.comodo.net/products/!CodeSigningSignup1b

The suggested causes don't fit as I have just started the session and
my IP address has not changed.

Steve
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Neural network applications, help and support.

Hi Stephen,

> When I try to buy a certificate I am getting a failure message
> https://secure.comodo.net/products/!CodeSigningSignup1b
>
> The suggested causes don't fit as I have just started the session and
> my IP address has not changed.

You have to contact Comodo because "secure.comodo.net" is the Comodo server.

Here are the contact details:
http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certif...e-contact.html

BTW, they also have a "Live Chat".

Note: make sure you are not using an UAC-aware operating system to request
your certificate. And use Internet Explorer!

http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8279
http://www.lindersoft.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9498
http://www.beachbunnysoftware.com/webinar/CodeSign.pdf

Friedrich

--
Friedrich Linder
Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

SetupBuilder is Windows 7 installation -- "point. click. ship"

-- Official Comodo Code Signing and SSL Certificate Partner