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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 21:44:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: R P Herrold <herrold AT owlriver DOT com>
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Subject: Trusted Software Vendor
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Milton Quinteros S. wrote:

> Would you consider the possibility to subscribe to the Comodo Trusted
> Software Vendor list
> (http://internetsecurity.comodo.com/trustedvendor/signup.php), and sign
> every executable?

> I don't know how much is the certificate but I'm sure there is a lot of
> people like me to make donations.

off the link: Comodo Code Signing Certificates // Comodo CA 
offers Code Signing certificates at the lowest 
prices around.

http://www.instantssl.com/code-signing/index.html

a bit under $100 a year

But, clearly not the 'lowest price' ... https://startssl.com/ 
issues such to people with their Class II validation for less

I assume there is some reason this is not presently done

-- Russ herrold

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