Thought I would raise this hairy thorn as the whole world of both software and web site certificates is changing.
Suggest a read of https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1059-notes.pdf
I think we have all had issues with AV programs, Windows Defender, others, throwing wobblies at a lot of software, especially small niche software as time progresses.
Typical issues are:
o No formal code certificate or even a "self signed" cert being frowned upon
o Cloud base ratings - e.g. if it used by millions it is deemed ok
o False positives by various engines affecting so AV programs and not others
Now I'm the author of Scan125, Scan75 and other programs which are free/charity ware based. There is NO WAY I can afford expensive certificates.
So I checked, out of interest ProScan and ARC software downloads and they do not have certificates either. This is not a criticism of them or any other, lets say' exclusive / niche software.
Me / these authors do our programming for a number of reasons but generally speaking we love what we do, we want to help radio users, a modest income/donations supports the costs we already incur with hosting etc.
To me it seems the way all this security, restrictions, cert income generation, stitch up by those agencies/authorities is ultimately going to kill off our hobbies with regards to independent software from real users.
Even if you make your PC accept non certificated there are still those hoops and loops that many users don't really understand resulting in "required support" from the authors.
Would not surprise me if that in the future any website hosting un-certificated software will be banned/block thus not allowing the software to be download.
For me as my software generates money for charity I suspect I would have to find a cert authority that would be willing to grant me a free license. As it happens I already have a free licenses for some software/components I use in my software development thanks to the generosity of their authors.
However I just can't see any cert authority doing similar.
Suggest a read of https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1059-notes.pdf
I think we have all had issues with AV programs, Windows Defender, others, throwing wobblies at a lot of software, especially small niche software as time progresses.
Typical issues are:
o No formal code certificate or even a "self signed" cert being frowned upon
o Cloud base ratings - e.g. if it used by millions it is deemed ok
o False positives by various engines affecting so AV programs and not others
Now I'm the author of Scan125, Scan75 and other programs which are free/charity ware based. There is NO WAY I can afford expensive certificates.
So I checked, out of interest ProScan and ARC software downloads and they do not have certificates either. This is not a criticism of them or any other, lets say' exclusive / niche software.
Me / these authors do our programming for a number of reasons but generally speaking we love what we do, we want to help radio users, a modest income/donations supports the costs we already incur with hosting etc.
To me it seems the way all this security, restrictions, cert income generation, stitch up by those agencies/authorities is ultimately going to kill off our hobbies with regards to independent software from real users.
Even if you make your PC accept non certificated there are still those hoops and loops that many users don't really understand resulting in "required support" from the authors.
Would not surprise me if that in the future any website hosting un-certificated software will be banned/block thus not allowing the software to be download.
For me as my software generates money for charity I suspect I would have to find a cert authority that would be willing to grant me a free license. As it happens I already have a free licenses for some software/components I use in my software development thanks to the generosity of their authors.
However I just can't see any cert authority doing similar.
