Secure+Code+Certificates

Several times it has cropped up that our web site has no "Digital Certificate" to authenticate that the contents are actually from the physical C3HUU! So how does one get a digital certificate?

Well, a little research found a very nice web site which actually allows one to generate a digital certificate for various needs. To test, we decided to try to fix a little problem with lack of digital signing IDs on some software that C3HUU uses. The authors are distributing the code directly but didn't want to pay Verisign thousands of dollars just to get the right kind of digital ID.

The same kind of digital certificate must be acquired first. We went to Ascertia.com:
 * 1) Clicked on the "Free Certificates" tab
 * 2) then click on the "Get a Digital Certificate" pulldown tab
 * In the adjacent area of the pullodwn, you MUST also [|download the Ascertia Root Certificate] and follow the instructions to add to your Internet Explorer Browser (yes, this only works with IE for now, sigh)
 * 1) Enter information on your organization, for organization cert, put in the domain name
 * 2) An e-mail will be sent and after clicking on link (using Internet Explorer only), certificate text will be presented
 * 3) Cut-and-paste this into a cert file (with a .p7b file extension)

Next step is to digitally sign all the documents or executables you want to make available that require a certificate. [|Nice summary of the process here]. [|And a nice summary of the whole process, a bit dated, here].

Once the signature file is attached to the file with the signature tool, then when anyone goes to access the file with the digital ID attached, then there will be a warning popup. (Add text to deal with this popup)