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[Certification]

Hi,

Here's a quote from your "JSR75" page:

  http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/jsr75.html

Certification

Because the file system is accessed, the DictionaryForMIDs application needs to be signed with a certificate. Otherwise, on most devices, the user will be prompted a confirmation dialogue each time when a file is accessed. For detailed information on this see the Recommended Security Policy for GSM/UMTS devices.

For this certification task it needs to be analysed whether somehow DictionaryForMIDs can obtain a certificate - under conditions that are suitable for an Open Source project ! A commercial certificate is expensive, for example a VeriSign code signing certificate costs about $500 per year.

You may be interested to know that Tucows is offering cheaper codesigning certificates to authors who agree to put their software on Tucows (non-exclusive).

  https://author.tucows.com/certs.php

How cheap?  1 year is USD75, 2 years is USD140, 3 years is USD195.

They are genuine "Comodo" code signing certificates but much cheaper than Comodo sells them for.  And the web page explicitly says they can be used to sign J2ME MIDlets.

If DictionaryForMIDS makes a signed app, I would be happy to donate USD20.

Hope this helps,

Mitch.