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There were some good points about this on Slashdot. The biggest one is that it costs at least $1,000 to get a driver certified by Microsoft. (And someone also

There were some good points about this on Slashdot. The biggest one is that it costs at least $1,000 to get a driver certified by Microsoft. (And someone also suggests that it's really only open to organizations and not individual developers.) So this could change things in ways we haven't foreseen.... https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/07/31/2146234/all-windows-10-kernel-mode-drivers-must-be-digitally-signed-by-microsoft https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/07/31/2146234/all-windows...

Someone1234 10y ago
The $1000 figure has nothing to do with Microsoft, and will fall. At the moment there are two kinds of commonly available certificates, EV certificates, and non-EV Code Signing certificates. But rarely do the two meet. This scheme, per the Secure Boot standard, requires an EV Code Signing certificate which as of the time of writing is only sold by five vendors. In the future as these become more in demand we should expect to see prices fall. The requirements to get any EV certificate are the same, and flagging it for code signing is free, so there's no real reason any EV certificate cannot also be a code signing certificate. I doubt it will fall below $100-200 ever however, as that is how much EV certificates cost and the process is similar. edit: DigiCert already sell them for $224-165/year: https://www.digicert.com/friends/sysdev/ https://www.digicert.com/friends/sysdev/