Where does NVCleanstall get individual driver components from?

[Daumer]

I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. Does Nvidia actually let users download single components, or were they manually extracted from the whole driver package and stored in a third-party repository?

Bonus question: is there any particular reason why NVCleanstall makes use of Standard drivers rather than DCH drivers or is it just to avoid having to download the NVCP from the Microsoft Store?

 

[W1zzard]

From our servers, no contact is made with Nvidia at all

 

[ReverseEngneer]

From our servers, no contact is made with Nvidia at all

Do you verify if the files from your server are downloaded correctly? I heard that hackers can change files that are send to you.

 

[W1zzard]

Do you verify if the files from your server are downloaded correctly? I heard that hackers can change files that are send to you.

"Correct", yes in the context of what HTTP, TCP, IP and Ethernet, and other layers provide.

I think you're making a case for HSTS, which could definitely be an option, but it would block you from inspecting NVCleanstall's data stream, to verify nothing if important gets transmitted. Not sure which tradeoff I'd pick

There's always hacker attacks you could come up with that will work, especially theoretically, or assume I'm a bad man who puts a virus into the drivers

 

[ReverseEngneer]

Ok, Thanks for the clarification.