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0 pointsnotepad0x902mo ago0 comments

They can just do id verification instead of domain, either in-house or outsource it.

app store review isn't what I was talking about, I meant not having to verify your identity with the appstore, and use your own signing cert which can be used between platforms. Moreover, it would be less costly to develop signed windows apps. It costs several hundred dollars today.

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briHass2mo ago

Azure has a service ('Artifact Signing') which is $10/month for signing Windows executables (not Windows Store apps, which don't need it.)

That's pretty reasonable, considering it is built in to all the major code signing tools on Windows, they perform the identity verification, and the private keys are fully managed by Azure. Code signing certs are required to be on HSMs, so you're most likely going to be paying some cloud CA anyway.

notepad0x90OP2mo ago

This is wild, thank you so much!! I was struggling with these costs for a long time!! Why is this not more well known? I researched this a lot and it was going to cost me at minimum $500~ over 3 years with the cheapest providers. Let me see if my specific use case can work with them.

I owe you one @briHass :)

aramchanski1mo ago

Hey, how long did the identity validation take?

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