Hello, I would like to go ahead and compile and sign the TAP drivers myself. Does anyone know which certificate would be best to purchase?
Thanks, -Jon On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:37 PM, James Yonan <j...@yonan.net> wrote: > Jon Onstott wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am compiling OpenVPN and the TAP driver from source and would like the >> TAP driver to be signed so that it installs correctly on Vista (and doesn't >> pop-up warning dialog boxes). I noticed that the configure scripts attempt >> to do that if "signtool" is defined. Is there any way that I could sign the >> TAP driver? >> > > I think for most people, signing drivers themselves would be more pain than > it's worth. You have to get a special certificate from Verisign that costs > ~$450/year. You have to get the full WDK toolchain from Microsoft. > > I have thought about using the prebuilt TAP driver (from >> openvpn.net/prebuilt/ <http://openvpn.net/prebuilt/>) but the prebuilt >> binaries lag behind the current version and I need the TAP driver to be the >> most recent one possible. >> > > The TAP driver in http://openvpn.net/prebuilt/ is based on rc22 which is > identical to the driver that was just released with 1.2.0. > > James >
