Offers its publicly trusted Code Signing Certificates for non-incorporated individuals for a limited time starting at only $99.

GlobalSign, a Certification Authority and specialist in SSL Partner Programs, today announced the launch of a limited time promotion offering Code Signing Certificates to individual developers for only $99 per certificate.

The company explains that Code Signing Certificates for Individuals enable individual developers not associated with an incorporated organization to protect their brand identity and reduce the amount of download abandonment that occurs due to un-trusted warning messages that result from unsigned or self-signed code. This allows non-incorporated software developer entities to digitally sign and distribute their code, making thousands of innovative and new applications available to a wider audience.

It claims that the company is one of the few Certificate Authorities to offer Code Signing Certificates for Individuals. A single GlobalSign certificate can be used to sign multiple types of code including Microsoft Authenticode, Adobe Air, Java, Microsoft Office and Visual Basic, Apple, and Mozilla and Netscape Objects. When purchasing Code Signing Certificates from other providers, developers need to purchase separate certificates for each type of platform with some certificates costing as much as $499 each.

The company further explains that some developer platforms like Adobe Air have taken a more active approach to making the internet a trustworthy and secure channel for distributing software by requiring and/or promoting that developers sign code using either a digital certificate issued from a trusted Certificate Authority or a self signed certificate. In addition, more and more operating systems are recommending that code is digitally signed using a Code Signing Digital Certificate to provide the recipient assurances that the identity of the publisher who created the application has been verified by an independent and trusted source and that the code was not altered after it was signed. Operating systems will display popup windows with error messages cautioning end users not to download executables with unknown publishers. Worrying pop-up messages have significant negative business impact, slowing distribution as would-be installers are cautioned to pause or even abandon installation completely.

It says that the company will be offering promotional pricing on their Code Signing Certificates to individual developers starting at only $99 (one year certificate) until the end of September 2010. Individual developers can benefit from discounted pricing on 1-3 year validity. More information about the promotion or Code Signing Certificates for Individuals may be obtained from http://www.globalsign.com/code-signing/code-signing-for-individual-developers.html.