[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Do we need to sign Windows files with GnuPG? (original) (raw)

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Sat Apr 4 22:01:03 CEST 2015


On Sat, Apr 4, 2015, at 03:54 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

On 04.04.2015 21:49, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015, at 03:35 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 04.04.2015 21:02, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: >>> For the record, that is a Symantec/Verisign code signing >>> certificate. We paid $1123 for it last April. It expires >>> April 2017. >>> >>> If you don't switch to a different vendor, e.g. startssl, please >>> contact me for renewal in 2017. >> >> FWIW: The PSF mostly uses StartSSL nowadays and they also support code >> signing certificates. Given that this option is a lot cheaper than >> Verisign, I think we should switch, unless there are significant >> reasons not to. We should revisit this in 2017. > > Agree - apparently the starlssl process for getting a signing cert is > complex/obscure, so we should start early.

Not really. Once you have the org verification it's really easy. > Let me know if I can help providing PSF organization verification. I already completed that for the current cycle.

One can hope. We shall see :-)

KBK



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