[beaugunderson]

it's even worse if you are an individual developer who wants to sign the products you're releasing on Windows.

Azure had an "individual developer" beta that lasted less than a year and is now closed... so you have to be able to prove your "business" has been around for three years. they're one of the very few low-cost options who support cloud signing... $10/month or $120/year is VERY reasonable compared to $300/year the other registrars want, PLUS the cost of an HSM you can't use from the cloud.

how are people doing signed binaries on Windows for open source projects? I bought a three year file-based certificate to kick the can down the road but those three years are now up.