On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: [ ... ]
I’m guessing that signtool rejects expired certificates and I can’t find > any way of overriding the behaviour. I’d still like to do some signing even > though it is expired, because at least it sticks my identification inside > and people can see it during installation. Is there a trick I can pull to > use the expired cert? > > ** > > ** ** > > <winge>Damn those certs are expensive. I got that one for free, but a > Verisign renewal is $895 for two years. Thawte is $549 for two years. > Jeeeez, it works out at about a dollar per binary bit of the key.</winge> > Comodo starts at $166.95 / year according to their web site. You're doing your own name/good will a disservice and teaching your users bad habits by distributing software with an expired cert. -- *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
