If your looking for lower cost code signing certificate for an open source project then Certium has options:
€69 for the first year, which apparently includes a USB device to house the certificate hardware, renewals is a lot less.
Seems like a good option, although I've not tried this personally 🙂🤷♂️
#AppDevelopment #OpenSource #Certificates #DigitalCertificates #CodeSigning
WebPKI and You
https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/03/08/webpki-and-you.html
#HackerNews #WebPKI #WebSecurity #DigitalCertificates #InternetSafety #CyberSecurity #TechEducation
There’s been a push over the last twelve years to move web traffic off unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS, to protect the general public from dragnet surveillance, gaping assholes on public wifi>airpwn, backhauls over unencrypted satellites, that kinda thing. HTTPS relies on a public key infrastructure to make sure only authorized servers have keys for specific websites. [>oid]: an OID or “Object IDentifier” is intended [brs]: https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/documents/CA-Browser-Forum-TLS-BR-2.1.8.pdf [crtsh]: https://crt.sh/?q=blog.brycekerley.net [lol-diginotar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar#Issuance_of_fraudulent_certificates [iv-ocsp]: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html [>mac-ocsp]: Jeff Johnson’s [>crlite]: these use cascading bloom filters which [>short-lived]: the CA/BF baseline requirements [trustico-chrome]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html [trustico-gone]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/trustico-website-goes-dark-after-someone-drops-critical-flaw-on-twitter/ [trustico-compromise]: https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/wxX4Yv0E3Mk/m/o1cdfx2nAQAJ [>enclaves]: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and [>history]: i mean, i remember from when it happened [>parasite]: You may have realized that I don’t think [van-halen]: https://snackstack.net/2023/07/03/in-search-of-van-halens-brown-mms/ [>osi]: I’m not going to hit you with a [>responsibility]: in every part of your life! [>bloom]: [>later]: At time of publishing, it’s March 8, 2026 [hsts]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Strict-Transport-Security [>hsts]: This is generally a hardcoded value, [>cattle]: “cattle” is when there’s [ari]: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/09/16/ari-rfc [>caddy-ari]: I checked Caddy, the front-end server [>left]: there may be value in trying to renew [audits]: https://cabforum.org/about/information/auditors-and-assessors/audit-criteria/
Europe has invested heavily in digital citizenship. During the last year, we experienced Quebec's withdrawal from emails and other digital services due to security concerns, and later, we got to experience a full-blown, certificate-based digital identity experience in Spain.
#digitalCitizenship #onlineAdministration #Europe #EU #digitalCertificates #authentication #onlineIdentity
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
Europe has invested heavily in digital citizenship. During the last year, we experienced Quebec's withdrawal from emails and other digital services due to security concerns, and later, we got to experience a full-blown, certificate-based digital identity experience in Spain.
#digitalCitizenship #onlineAdministration #Europe #EU #digitalCertificates #authentication #onlineIdentity
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
Europe has invested heavily in digital citizenship. During the last year, we experienced Quebec's withdrawal from emails and other digital services due to security concerns, and later, we got to experience a full-blown, certificate-based digital identity experience in Spain.
#digitalCitizenship #onlineAdministration #Europe #EU #digitalCertificates #authentication #onlineIdentity
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
Other People Have Lives – I Have Domains
These are just some boring update notifications from the elkemental Webiverse. The elkement blog has recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, and the punktwissen blog will turn five in December. Time to celebrate this - with new domain names that says exactly what these sites are - the 'elkement . blog' and the 'punktwissen . blog' (Edit: which now - in 2020 - point to a copy of these sites elsewhere ;-) Edit again in 2023: And now the main name of this site is elkement.art […]https://elkement.art/2017/06/06/other-people-have-a-life-i-have-domains/
Europe has invested heavily in digital citizenship. During the last year, we experienced Quebec's withdrawal from emails and other digital services due to security concerns, and later, we got to experience a full-blown, certificate-based digital identity experience in Spain.
#digitalCitizenship #onlineAdministration #Europe #EU #digitalCertificates #authentication #onlineIdentity
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
Europe has invested heavily in digital citizenship. During the last year, we experienced Quebec's withdrawal from emails and other digital services due to security concerns, and later, we got to experience a full-blown, certificate-based digital identity experience in Spain.
#digitalCitizenship #onlineAdministration #Europe #EU #digitalCertificates #authentication #onlineIdentity
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
https://negativepid.blog/online-citizenship-in-spain/
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