On 04/16/2007 04:20 AM, James Knott wrote:
> M Henri Day wrote:
>> As I understand it, if OOo desires to have its installerar certified, it
>> must apply to a so-called «certification authority» (CA) for a
>> certificate.
>> I cannot see that this involves the payment of some sort of fee to
>> Microsoft, as implied in Dave's letter. Am I in error here ? Does
>> certification require the payment of fees to the CA, and in that case,
>> how
>> onerous are the fees involved ? Prior to voting for the issue to which
>> Kirill provides a link, which otherwise seems like an obvious choice, I'd
>> like to have a bit more information on this matter....
> 
> As I understand it, CA's  charge for the service.  However, you can
> always self certify, but then Windows will complain.
> 

Some are free:

<http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/htmlhelp/text/shared/guide/digital_signatures.html>

However, the problem, as I see it, would be that every mirror would then
also require a CA.

As a side note & not to stir the OOo vs M$ pot; I have on occasion over
the years found M$ sites (and others) with expired certificates. So I'm
not so sure that just having a DC is all it's cracked up to be.

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