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MicrosoftDocs / windows-driver-docs

windows-driver-docs

The official Windows Driver Kit documentation sources

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
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The official Windows Driver Kit documentation sources

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-15 08:50:31 UTC to 2022-06-12 14:02:37 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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The biggest thing with digital signatures is that getting one trusted by Windows means entertaining a racket enabled by Microsoft. There are two types of code signing certificates: regular, and EV. With regular certificates, all you get is effectively a way to carry your antivirus-based reputation with you as you continue to sign new binaries with it. At first sight, Windows will still throw up smartscreen warnings about it being potentially dangerous, until it's seen the certificate enough to trust it for new binaries. With EV certificates, everything is smooth sailing - only if actual malware is reported does your certificate get slammed by antivirus reputation, otherwise you can sign anything and it'll instantly bypass all AV software and Windows smartscreen prompts. The issue with getting either of these is that absolute cheapest one
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you can get is $59 a year for 3 years via a reseller[0] of Sectigo certificates, and that is only for regular code signing. If you want an EV certificate, it's going to be $219 a year for 3 years at the minimum via the same reseller (do not try to go through the regular channels or you'll likely be paying 2x-3x more[1]). Thankfully Microsoft is aware of these concerns[2,3] and there is a potential solution coming up called Azure Code Signing[4] however no new public information has been released since that video went up. 0: https://codesigncert.com/brand (this is just the cheapest site I've found - I am not affiliated with them beyond being a customer) 1: https://sectigo.com/ssl-certificates-tls/code-signing 2: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/issues/... 3: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs/issues/... 4: https://youtu.be/Wi-4WdpKm5E?t=530
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