If you’re getting ready to switch your website from HTTP to HTTPS, you may be wondering whether you need to purchase a CA signed certificate for SSL, or if you can just use a self-signed certificate. Here’s what you need to know…
We get asked a lot about self signed certificates vs CA signed certificates — specifically why you can’t just sign your own SSL certificates and avoid working through the certificate authorities (CAs).
If you’re here, it’s likely you arrived at a website using Google Chrome and received an error about a Certificate Authority being invalid. This is an issue that needs to be fixed by the website owner or manager. It’s a potentially serious issue that shouldn’t be ignored or bypassed.
While you technically can self-sign a Code Signing certificate, a self-signed code signing certificate won’t work for its intended purpose.
Code Signing is extremely important, and it’s misuse could potentially be catastrophic, so there are some good reasons why you can’t create a self-signed code signing certificate.