It's a onetime signing certificate that allows you to produce unlimited amount of code for distribution under Windows Vista x64. Anyone distributing software for an OS kernel should have one of these certificates just so that we know where the driver is coming from. It beats the hell out of forcing the consumer to manually check MD5 checksums and that?s not something normal people will tolerate anyways.
The certificate is just a way of certifying the software producer and while I may not agree with how PKI is done in general, code signing is THAT important because you?re modifying people?s kernels.
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