Re: Libusbk for Window 10 signing

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Børge Strand-Bergesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Don't let the cost of signing scare you off. As long as there are test
> certificates available for evaluation, I'm sure production
> certificates can be crowd sourced. You're far from the only guy to
> bring up this problem. Unfortunately, talking to MS about it is about
> as productive as talking to a tree.

On the other hand, certificate to sign the driver is just the smallest
part of the efforts (eg: libusb-win32 project got the money using the
donation from the mailing list members). Getting somebody who is familiar
with the kernel mode knowledge to write the driver is the difficult part.

In reality, I have not seen many open source Windows kernel driver
projects since that is really a niche. The only exception seems to be
Redhat which has come out with some open source driver to support
their activities. But again Redhat is a big company.

Maybe things will change now that Microsoft posts the WDF (both KMDF
and UMDF) source codes in github under a very liberal licence (MIT license).
URL: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-frameworks

So I think it is now not fair to complain about Microsoft not being
helpful. Rather prepare to climb the steep learning curve
and develop the driver yourself or prepare to pay for the driver
development and maintenance.



-- 
Xiaofan

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