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AIR Developer Certificates now Available
| By Rich Tretola | October 30, 2007 | |
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To obtain an Adobe AIR developer certificate from Thawte:
1.Visit Thawte site and select “Adobe AIR Developer Certificate”
2.You *must * use the Firefox browser to initiate the Adobe AIR developer certificate browser and to obtain the certificate.
3.Complete enrollment process step #1 “configure your enrollment”
Note: As part of this process a private/public key pair will be generated by Thawte
Note: The private key will be automatically stored within the Firefox keystore
4.Complete enrollment process step #2 and step #3“ Confirm you enrollment” and “Complete your enrollment”
5. Thawte will perform an Identity verification process and may request additional information.
Note: Additional information about the type of documentation.
6. After verification/vetting is complete, Thawte will email you instructions on how to retrieve the certificate.
Note: Please make sure that you retrieve the certificate using Firefox
Note: You will need to log-in to the Thawte site using the same password created during the cert enrollment process step #1
7. Click on “Fetch certificate” on the Thawte site.
Note:The certificate will be automatically saved to the Firefox Keystore
8. Please export the private key and certificate from the Firefox keystore
Note: When exporting the private key/cert from Firefox, it will be exported in a .p12 (pfx) format which ADT, Flex, Flash Authoring, Dreamweaver, and Apatana tools can consume
9. How to export the private key/ Cert from Firefox
On Windows: open Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage Certificates
On Mac OS: open Firefox -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage Certificates
a.Select your Signing Certificate you retrieved from Thawte from the list and click the Backup button. Upon export the Cert and private key will be included in the .p12 file
b.Enter a file name and location to export the certificate and private key to and click Save. The private and cert will be saved as .p12 file extension (PKCS12 format)
c.If you are using the Firefox Master password, you will be prompted for your master password for software security device. (This password is only used by Firefox.)
d.From the Choose a certificate backup password dialog box, enter a password to create/export the certificate.
e.Enter the password twice and click OK. You should receive a successful backup password message.
10.Use this *.p12 (pfx) file within ADT, Flex, Flash Authoring, Dreamweaver, or Apatana tools. Use the password used for the .p12 file export (step 9d)
Topics: Adobe AIR, Announcements | 10 Comments »
October 31st, 2007 at 2:36 pm
OK… how much is the cert? What is it going to cost?
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October 31st, 2007 at 2:45 pm
$299 per year or $549 for 2 years, remember that self signed are still free
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November 2nd, 2007 at 2:34 am
Hi,
I don’t see Adobe AIR Developer Certificate in your link ??
Thanks
JP
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November 2nd, 2007 at 6:22 am
It is the last item i the list here.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hi,
I just had this conversation on the Thawte site with a sales rep who said I could find the Adobe AIR Developer Certificate on the exact same link, but I can’t see it either. We swapped screenshots and didn’t come to a decent explanation why he did see the option and I didn’t.
@Jeanphilippe thanks, now I know I’m not the only one who can’t see the option
Anyone else who does/does not see the link? Any reasons why? (I tried in both IE and FF)
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January 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I am very confused about this. The selection is there and is number 6 on the list. Please see the screen shot below and make sure you are using the Firefox browser.
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January 4th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Must be a os/browser thing. At work (Vista) I get the option in FireFox (2.0.0.11).
But not in IE (7.0.6000). On my laptop (XP) I don’t get the option in FireFox (2.0.0.11) and in IE (7.0). Pretty strange eigh…
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January 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Rich,
Can you ellaborate a little more on why someone would be advised to get a certification from Thawte, and some of the benefits of this process?
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January 31st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
If you are selling an AIR application, you would want it to have a valid publisher when the user installs the application. It is true that you can create a self signed certificate but this will show publisher as UNKNOWN. See the images below:
Self Signed Install:
Signed Install:
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December 27th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I think 250 dollar is way to much for such a certificate. As a starting developer 250 dollar is like a lot of money.
I don’t see why it has to cost this much money.
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