Re: Libusbk for Window 10 signing

Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:51:05 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libusb.devel.windows
Message-ID <CAGjSPUCigJVk_ckKj9iBh=ZNb_668FsWQO6NwK8kovH-=K4-4Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Graeme Gill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>
>> We think the future of generic Windows driver is WinUSB driver.
>> WinUSB already works with isochronous transfer since Windows 8.1.
>> Ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn376866(v=vs.85).aspx
>
> Don't you need a .inf file for that too, thereby requiring
> the .inf to be signed for Win10 ?
>
> (Certainly you can get away without having the .inf signed for < Win8,
>  as long as the .sys is signed).
>
> I've not heard whether the installation of a temporary root certificate
> for the .inf signing is a viable path with Win10 or not either.

That should still work. I have not installed the RTM version
of Windows 10 yet but Zadig and libusbK driver installer
works for the pre-release version of Windows 10 last time
I tried.

>> Another possibility is to look at usbdk which will be better supported
>> since it is from Redhat.
>> Ref: http://sourceforge.net/p/libusb/mailman/message/34083838/
>
> This would seem to avoid the need for .inf signing, assuming
> it gets supported for Win10.

It should work already under Windows 10.


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Xiaofan

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