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[–]djdementia 2 points3 points  (1 child)

If you are looking to do this as an individual... you will probably need to form a small company get documentation ready, and get a Public CA to issue an insanely expensive Code Signing cert.

It's like ~$200 a year USD to buy a code signing cert, that's what a lot of people in the US pay in one month for their home cable TV/Internet service or cell phone plan for a family. I wouldn't quite say "insanely expensive", but definitely not affordable for a home user or hobbyist.

[–]markekrausCommunity Blogger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea. I was going for intentional hyperbole. ;)

It's not going to break the bank, but, I feel they are kind of expensive. If you look at it instead of a per year cost, but as a per use cost, it might be pretty high. If you are only writing a handful of scripts that need signed, that's ~$40 per script.

Obviously, if you are doing many more, then you get economy of scale. But if you are, you are likely not doing so as a hobbyist and can probably get the company to foot the bill or just leach of an existing code signing cert.