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by tho9Ohx1eo 3544 days ago
> There's literally no way we could afford to pay for new certs from an alternative registrar instead.

If ~$100 is that much for you (as a company of some sort) why don't you use Letsencrypt?
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justinclift 3544 days ago
Good point, that might be the better solution for the public HTTPS part of things.

Lets Encrypt doesn't provide MS Authenticode signing certs (eg to validate our downloads are legit) though. Hopefully this whole mess doesn't scope creep to include those too.

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marcosdumay 3544 days ago
You bet it will. If MS does not revoke them, it will reflect very badly on the security of their program.
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duskwuff 3544 days ago
If anything, I'd expect code signing certificates to be at more risk. Usage of these certificates is inherently much more difficult to track, as signed executables are much harder to discover than web servers. As such, even if there were a "certificate transparency" process for code signing certificates (which I don't believe there is), it'd be difficult to prove it was being operated honestly.
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