Seems like security is slowly eating the software world. At some point security will be so onerous that it will take more effort than the actual software being secured. Software was more fun in the good old days before there was a huge criminal industry exploiting it. Alas, it was bound to happen eventually.
That said, seems like you could bring down that price by hosting the key yourself with a yubikey or cloud hsm instead of buying the turn key solution from digicert.
That said, seems like you could bring down that price by hosting the key yourself with a yubikey or cloud hsm instead of buying the turn key solution from digicert.