Eclipse's plug-in signature mechanism

The complete process of Eclipse's plug-in signature mechanism

• Tutorial about "Explore Eclipse's plug-in signature mechanism" from Xing Xing Li, Software Engineer, IBM.
  • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-plugin-sigs/index.html

• General information about "Signing custom or third-party features and plug-ins for install and update".
  • http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ledoc/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.rcp.tools.doc.appdev/securing_signingfeaturesplugins.html

• General information about the Certificate Authority
  • http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Authority

Costs of some certificate authorities

The range of costs depends on the different types of certificates and it is normally available for one year.

certificate authority	cost-range	reference
Verisign	349 € - 1.299 €	http://www.verisign.de
Trustcenter	149 € - 679 €	http://www.trustcenter.de
Ratepoint	179 $ - 1195 $	http://www.ratepoint.com
Geotrust	249 $ - 995 $	http://geotrust.com