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>In the course of this article, the Pakon film scanners went from being a user’s nightmare to being totally usable with modern versions of Windows.

Right, but I think it's still nightmare because Windows require driver signature verification by default. But why there's dedicated kernel driver at all? I wonder how feasible would be transplating decompiled driver code into userspace shim that uses WinUSB.

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>I think it's still nightmare because Windows require driver signature verification by default

I've taken care of that already :) My custom drivers are properly signed and basically ready to release once I tidy up some loose ends.

I'm not entirely sure if this really needs to run at the kernel level. In the future I might investigate converting it to a user-mode driver, but for now I think a signed kernel-mode driver will suffice.

You actually paid to have them signed?

I had help, but yes. I think it's worth the cost to give people peace of mind that they won't have to disable some of the most important security features available to them in order to use a scanner.

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