Digital Signature/Code Signing Question

Question

I make programs that a lot of people use and one thing that would be nice to have a a digital certificate so when people run it is admin, it will show the user it was made by me and it hasn't been tampered with.

I have done research on this and you do have to pay. I don't mind, just can't be a whole lot.

But the other thing is that.. it seems to only work for business. I do not have a business, I am an individual developer.

So is there a way for an individual developer to get a code signing certificate?

This is for C# WinForm desktop applications, by the way.

Answer 1

You can indeed get a code signing digital certificate in your name as an individual without having a company, I've done exactly this myself using the heavily discounted Comodo certificates from the Tucows author site.

There's a great walkthrough of all the steps you'll need here. All you need are a domain that's registered in your name with your phone number and address corresponding with your actual details and an email address you can respond from @ that domain. They contacted me to verify I existed and wanted proof of address and phone number (a scanned telephone bill did the trick).

Once you've got the digital certificate you can sign application in myriad ways (I use 'signtool' that comes with the .NET framework SDK).