X64 Windows Vista to require signed drivers

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I assume that for testing purposes you can still install test root
certificates on your test systems and sign your drivers with your own test
signatures. I could be wrong of course, but I would be surprised if that
were not the case.

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Mark Roddy DDK MVP
Windows 2003/XP/2000 Consulting
Hollis Technology Solutions 603-321-1032
www.hollistech.com

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:23 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] X64 Windows Vista to require signed drivers

Another thing I really love about the new policy is the ways
to override it as a developer:

. Attaching a kernel debugger. Attaching an active
kernel debugger
to the target computer disables the enforcement module in
Windows Vista and allows the driver to load.

. Using the F8 option. An F8 boot option introduced
with Windows
Vista-“Disable Driver Signature Enforcement”-is available to
disable the kernel-signing enforcement only for the current
boot session. This setting does not persist across boot sessions.

Well using the debugger can impact (admittly slightly) the
way a driver runs, so I never consider it a valid final test
to have the debugger on the syste,.

Of course having to remember that I must choose an F8 boot
option, and be by machine everytime it reboots to manually do
this is going to be lots of fun.
I wonder how this will work for testing an unsigned driver
needed to boot windows? I also wonder how it will work with
the WDK image provisioning and testing an unsigned driver,
gee does that mean in the middle of the automated process, I
need a program to wake me up at 2AM to choose the F8 option?

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Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting Remove
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