My Experience Getting A Code Signing Certificate From Comodo
I have been working in VBA for Microsoft Office 2007 lately. And if you haven’t used it yet, I can tell you there have been significant changes in macro / VBA security versus Office 2003.
Basically, getting a VBA macro / module that hasn’t been digitally signed to run in Word 2007, Excel 2007 or Access 2007 requires the end user to go through a fairly complicated process — if his network’s group policies even allow unsigned macros to run — with many scary warnings against running unsigned code thrown in for good measure.
So I really needed to get a code-signing cert. And after looking around on the Web for places to get one, I settled on Comodo, via Tucows.
Tucows will sell a Comodo certificate for $75 per year, or $195 for three years — which, while not cheap, is less than half the cost some certificate authorities charge for a one-year cert, and a significant discount over Comodo’s published prices.
There’s not a lot on the Web about the experience and process of getting a certificate from Comodo, so I thought I would share some advice.
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