Neowin News Feed for: Signatures

Vista x64 to require digital signatures for many drivers

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:53:05 +0000

With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the xX64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where... Read more...

Microsoft protests at digital signatures

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:27:13 +0000

Microsoft has filed legal papers in a California court requesting the rejection of all anti-trust settlement claims submitted with digital signatures. The software giant also requested that the court reject all such claims that have... Read more...

German government employees get electronic signatures

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:58:28 +0000

Germany's federal government is introducing electronic signatures for its employees, a step it hopes will help make the security procedure generally accepted in the country. More than 200,000 employees of ministries and agencies will be... Read more...