I am trying to create my own certificate for a adobe air application, I created one already based on this link: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f74.html
But when I install my application the publisher field is still set with unknown, which is at the end what I am trying to do, I need to set the publisher with one specific value.
Thanks a lot!
You need to buy a code-signing certificate from a company like Verisign orThawte or another Certificate Authority.
Read this blog by Christian Cantrell for more info on how to get the certificates.
The pages where you can buy the certificate from Thawte and Verisign.
I don't think Thawte allows individuals to buy the certificate, but Verisign does.
Remember, you need to buy the Adobe AIR code signing certificate
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Our UWP application will be released outside of the Microsoft Store since it is a Line-Of-Business application. I scoured the internet for references and what I have gathered is that for users to be able to install our UWP application, it needs to be signed with a Trusted Certificate.
A trusted certificate can be obtained from any Certificate Authority(CA) by submitting a Certificate-Signing-Request(CSR) for code signing cert.
Now I haven't tried to get a certificate yet, as it involves payments. So, I want to be sure if I can get a .pfx certificate from the Certificate Authorities for signing our UWP application?
Will CA have the provision to select a Code signing certificate for UWP? and NOT an SSL certificate?
Yes, you should sign your app with a code-signing certificate that is trusted on each device to which you deploy the app.
You would typically use a certificate that is provided by your organization if you belong to one. The other recommended option is to purchase a certificate from a third-party provider whose public root certificate is already trusted by Windows.
If you do a Bing or Google search for "code signing certificate", you should find some trusted providers.
I’m building a web application where users can create their own websites. Users have the option to point their own domain names at these sites. A prototype for the application already exists; Apache accepts requests on all hostnames and the actual domain mapping and resolution happen at the application level (a simple database lookup grabs the site that matches the requested hostname).
Where I’m stuck is how users’ SSL certificates might fit into this equation. What steps would I need to take to allow a user to upload their SSL certificate such that the application could successfully handle secure HTTP requests to their hostname? Is this even something the application alone could handle?
I think you cannot handle this in your application alone.
It's a CA problem, except you are an intermediate CA company, or you cannot get the user's domain SSL certificate and sign for user's domain.
The typical user, and IMHO even more the user's who are going to create a web site of this system as opposed to setting up their own WordPress or other site on their own server (or their own paid shared server hosting account), will have absolutely no idea how to setup a proper SSL certificate, so getting it to your securely so that you can install it wouldn't even be an issue because they will never get that far.
However, you should be able to use Let's Encrypt to do exactly what you need. As part of the process of adding a domain, once the domain is pointing to your server (the users will have to figure out how to do that with their domain registrar), you can create a Let's Encrypt certificate and validate it. My favorite web hosting company (I won't name it as that is not relevant - anyone can do this with some effort) provides this capability as part of their Control Panel. They also provide paid certificates with a few of the big issuers, as they have for many years, but for most small sites Let's Encrypt works very well and is totally free. The setup literally takes only a minute. The key is that you have to give the user an IP address or CNAME first so that they can point the domain. Once the domain is resolving to your server, you can get the Let's Encrypt certificate.
I nedd to create a self signed certificate for my desktop app. What do I need to enter in these fields?
Organization unit
Organization name
Does Organization means my agency's name?
As Flextras pointed out these are optional on self-signed certificates. When purchasing a certificate from a certificate authority like thawte or verisign they are used to verify the existence of your company. In this case
Organization Name is the legal name of your business
Organization Unit is the specific branch within your business
This PDF from thawte touches on it and this article explains it more explicitly.
For Organization Name I put my company's formal legal name; DotComIt. For Organization Unit I think I either left it blank.
If memory serves me neither of them are required; so you can leave them both blank.
Hi I studied Push notification, and i find out I have to Creating the SSL Certificate and Keys and I do not know if it cost extra money because on website here it is not written if this service is for free(included in license) or is for extra money.I have bought business license for 99$.
Thanks for help
you have to buy an SSL certificate from a 3rd party website like http://www.verisign.com/
Apple require that you have an SSL certificate to ensure that data sent through their service is being sent in a secure manner
You must create certificates and key with the Apple developper portal :
Turorial here.
I need to access a third party application that requires a JKS Certificate (which I have).
My client application is an ASP.NET one. How do I go about this?
(I would have liked to provide more information, but unfortunately I have none!)
First, import the certificate to the windows certificate store. Have a look at http://tjworld.net/software/codesigning/JKS2PFX.html for this. If you need to use it from the aspnet account you might prefer to import it to the machines-store (instead of your accounts cert store). Use the MMC, certificates addin to check it.
Then use this certificate in your application. In most cases you will select it by its "DN=...." property (which you will also see in MMC).
HTH,
Thomas