Turns out John found a bargain

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Before posting my discussion of code signing cert costs, I took a quick look at my trusted root store and didn't find anything by Comodo. I guess I should have looked more closely. There it is!

Apparently John's found an excellent deal. It turns out that the trusted root cert he had to install was only for the *purchase* of the certificate. It's odd that Comodo didn't use their established trusted root to issue the SSL cert for the site where they sell these certificates.

Mea culpa!!


Posted Jan 17 2008, 10:35 AM by keith-brown
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Jim Beveridge wrote May not work under Win9x
on 05-27-2008 7:28 PM
Comodo is a great deal, but it is only supported under Win9x if the user has installed the Root Certificates Update. There are still a lot of people out there who have not installed that update. Therefore, if your application supports Win9x, Thawte is a better choice.
Doug Vanderweide wrote re: Turns out John found a bargain
on 07-11-2008 8:11 AM

And if your application supports prehistoric bird pecking on stone tablet, you'll need to use the Bedrock certificate authority.

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