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Kernel CodeSigning Certificate

Part of our work involves developing Kernel Drivers for Microsoft Windows. With the move to x64 Microsoft requests all Kernel Drivers to be signed. Time to get a certificate for that as well because only Microsoft approved CAs are valid for signing kernel code. So  this is the new certificate...

New CodeSigning Certificate

Since 2007 I have been signing all the executables and resources if possible. Back then I voted for  Thawte as my trustworthy verifier for my code - spending a 300USD per year... When our company moved Thawte only gave my the choice to buy a whole new certificate - no way to "upgrade" or re-issue or just update their records, hence I was not too pleased as you can imagine. Apart from that their certificates cannot be used for Java and Authenticode together - you really have to buy separate certificates! Argh! Looking around I found that Starfield - known under the name  GoDaddy - offers "the same" for only 150USD per year. And yet they are listed in all the major OS and browsers. You only have to make sure you choose to choose "Starfield" instead of "GoDaddy" as the root CA when applying for a certificate. - So last week I got  the new cert and here it is...

[Unsupported] A way of changing the Outlook RPC over HTTPS port

 HOWTO: Use Outlook RPC over HTTPS with port other than 80 or 443

NEW: Monitoring, Logging and Testing

Some  information about Microsoft LogParser and WCAT including some examples.

Configuration Citrix Secure Gateway [german]

I have compiled an updated PDF outlining the steps to  configure the Citrix Secure Gateway 3.0 (available only in German).

Website moved - downloads gone?

I have not been updating this site for quite some time so I decided it would be the time again to do so... Therefore I moved the site from my previous provider to some other place. One of you guys found out that the downloads were actually not transferred so I corrected that. While doing this I decided to sign all the binaries so you know they have not been modified otherwise. Trustworthy, isn't it...

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