StartSSL - one certificate for HTTPS and for code signing?

Question

Digital certificates

Greetings!

I am programming in Delphi on Win32 and Win64, I have a website and an API server (on the same domain).

Now there is a material opportunity to buy a certificate.
For HTTPS connections, I bought certificates before (Thawte) - everything worked well.

My eyes fell on the "Swiss Knife of StartSSL", if I understand correctly, then by paying once 69 dollars for a year (or two) will I get the opportunity to use one certificate for two purposes?

Ie:
- HTTPS
- Object Code Signing

Has anyone dealt with this? Is everything so good and simple there, or are there some details?

Or maybe you need to buy a separate $69 certificate for each use case?

And why is it cheap?
At Comodo there, VerySign code signing certificates are much more expensive.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You pay money for validating you. Validation is valid ;| year.
After validation during the year, you can create as many certificates as you like for any number of sites / domains / signatures, etc. After the validation period expires, certificates are not revoked, but you cannot create new ones.
There are different certificates for SSL and signing.
And cheap because a relatively new player on the market and is not supported (swears at an untrusted root) by ancient browsers / clients. Well, kind of a healthy alternative ;)
By the way, there is also a wildcard, so you can transfer the API to a subdomain.