Re: Can my NDIS driver be signed?
> Windows 2000). Has this changed with Windows Vista?
>From what I know on Vista - they change the driver repository structure a lot,
and the signing policy too.
Vista drivers will use certificate-based signing like, say, IE plugins and
ActiveX controls. The drivers will be divided to "not signed", "HCT-signed" and
"vendor-signed".
Unsigned driver install will have the artificial hardships like bothering the
user with questions and impossibility of unattended install - as it is now.
Vendor-signed drivers will not be required to pass the HCT/WHQL tests, and can
be signed in-house by the vendor's certificate. After this, admins at user's
site will have the ability of declaring "We do trust the drivers from this
vendor", by placing the vendor certificate somewhere to Cert Store (this can
also be done domain-wise I think). After this, the drivers from this vendor
will be installed the same way as WHQLed ones. I think that this was invented
by MS to solve the good old problem with WHQL and videocard driver builds
(WHQLed build is not always the best).
WHQL will still be in place though.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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