@Cleverboy: They have to go about it correctly. I'm in charge of our company's Windows Mobile signing. They have one CA on the device: VeriSign. They charge $350 a year just to have a certificate, then $7 to sign ONE FILE on top of that! It's ridiculous. Nokia has also gone way overboard with S60 signing. If Apple has muliple CAs that it recognizes so there's healthy competition in buying an official cert so it's not an arm and a leg, that's fine. They also need to allow importing of certificates, too, so open source programs are encouraged, but I could see Apple not caring about that.
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nathan @ Oct 17th 2007 5:18PM
@Cleverboy: They have to go about it correctly. I'm in charge of our company's Windows Mobile signing. They have one CA on the device: VeriSign. They charge $350 a year just to have a certificate, then $7 to sign ONE FILE on top of that! It's ridiculous. Nokia has also gone way overboard with S60 signing. If Apple has muliple CAs that it recognizes so there's healthy competition in buying an official cert so it's not an arm and a leg, that's fine. They also need to allow importing of certificates, too, so open source programs are encouraged, but I could see Apple not caring about that.