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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No. Signing certificates that will make that Windows message go away are prohibitively expensive and--in my opinion--invasive (never mind my objections to "pay to be less frightening" extortion schemes in general).
We provide checksums and GPG signatures to ensure that what you get is what we uploaded (and was uploaded by who github believes us to be). If that's not sufficient, people are free to: a) lobby Microsoft to relax their increasingly draconian and unnecessarily prohibitive "security" measures; b) trust us; c) build the installer themselves; d) not use Sigil.
Sigil is free, it's open-source, and it's maintained by volunteers who don't accept (or want) money/donations for their efforts. No one has to trust my Windows binary installer if they don't want to. In fact, I provide detailed instructions so people can create their own Sigil binaries (for free) if they so choose.
Sorry for the slight rant. It's just that I often explore the options available to me to eliminate Microsoft's "frightening" Unknown Publisher installer warning. And I come away more angry and more disgusted each and every time. So I'm not paying the extortionate fees (or tolerating an identity verification proccess) just to be "allowed" to distribute free software. It doesn't sit well with me.
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Thank you for your honest answer. I didn't know how it works.
Given that the Mac OS X Package is code signed with your Apple Developer signature, I thought it was simple to do the same thing in Windows