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You must sign your drivers with a certificate before you submit them to the hardware dashboard. Your organization can associate any number of certificates with its dashboard account, and each one of your submissions must be signed with any one of those certificates. Whether you have extended validation (EV) or standard certificates, there's no restriction on the number of certificates associated with your organization.
This article provides general information on the types of code signing available for your drivers, and the associated requirements for those drivers.
For more extensive information on driver signing requirements, see:
Where to get EV code signing certificates
You can purchase EV code signing certificates from one of the following certificate authorities:
EV certificate signed drivers
To submit binaries for attestation signing, your Hardware Dev Center dashboard account must have at least one EV certificate associated with it. This requirement is also true if you want to submit binaries for Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) certification.
The following rules apply:
Your registered EV certificate must be valid at the time of submission.
Although Microsoft strongly recommends that you sign individual submissions with an EV certificate, you can sign submissions with an Authenticode signing certificate. The Authenticode certificate must be registered to your Partner Center account.
All certificates must be SHA-2, and signed with the
/fd sha256SignTool command line switch.
If you already have an approved EV certificate from a certificate authority, you can use it to establish a Partner Center account. If you don't have an EV certificate, choose one the certificate authorities and follow their directions for purchase.
After the certificate authority verifies your contact information and your certificate purchase is approved, follow their directions to retrieve the certificate.