Sign driver for 64 Bit Build of Virtual Floppy Drive for Windows?

[Carsten Krüger]

Hi,

I know that for some open source projects React OS sign's windows drivers.

Could you please sign the driver for virtual floppy drive?

Motivation:
Virtual Floppy drive is very helpfull, for example take freedos floppy image,
include Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen HD204UI firmware update into the image
and put it with unetbootin on usb stick.
Problem: virtual floppy drive didn't run on windows 7 x64 because the need of
driver signing.

Homepage:
http://vfd.sourceforge.net/

Description:
> This is a virtual floppy drive for Windows NT / 2000 / XP developed by Ken Kato
> (Reported to work also on 2003 Server and Vista). <-- and windows 7 x86, too.
>
> You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents --
> view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a virtual floppy,
> launch a program on a virtual floppy... almost anything you can do with a real floppy.

vfdwin x64 driver build (unsigned) from "critical0"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/2.1%20(February%2006%2C%202008)/vf...

vfdwin x64 driver build (unsigned) from "Igor Levicki"
http://levicki.net/downloads/sendfile.php?path=vfd_x64/vfd_x64.zip

Discussion about the different versions:
http://levicki.net/articles/stories/2007/08/17/The_story_of_the_vfdwin_21_64...

greetings
Carsten

[Zachary Gorden]

The developer of the project would have to ask us to sign it.  You're free
to email him and let him know we offer the service.

2011/1/27 Carsten Krüger [e-mail]
> Hi,
>
> I know that for some open source projects React OS sign's windows drivers.
>
> Could you please sign the driver for virtual floppy drive?
>
> Motivation:
> Virtual Floppy drive is very helpfull, for example take freedos floppy
> image,
> include Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen HD204UI firmware update into the
> image
> and put it with unetbootin on usb stick.
> Problem: virtual floppy drive didn't run on windows 7 x64 because the need
> of
> driver signing.
>
> Homepage:
> http://vfd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Description:
> > This is a virtual floppy drive for Windows NT / 2000 / XP developed by Ken
>
> Kato
> > (Reported to work also on 2003 Server and Vista). <-- and windows 7 x86,
>
> too.
> > You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly
>
> access the contents --
> > view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a
>
> virtual floppy,
> > launch a program on a virtual floppy... almost anything you can do with a
>
> real floppy.
>
> vfdwin x64 driver build (unsigned) from "critical0"
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/2.1%20(February%2006%2C%202008)/vf...
>
> vfdwin x64 driver build (unsigned) from "Igor Levicki"
> http://levicki.net/downloads/sendfile.php?path=vfd_x64/vfd_x64.zip
>
> Discussion about the different versions:
>
> http://levicki.net/articles/stories/2007/08/17/The_story_of_the_vfdwin_21_64...
>
> greetings
> Carsten
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Carsten Krüger]

Hello Zachary,
> The developer of the project would have to ask us to sign it.  You're free
> to email him and let him know we offer the service.

I think the project is abandoned.
The official homepage is down, last version from archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20080424120409/http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/...
Someone has created a mirror on sourceforge but it's not the original author (I don't
even think it's a software developer)
That's the reason why I posted to reactos mailinglist directly :-)

I've now written an email to the original author
Ken Kato ([e-mail])
but I don't know if he will answer.

greetings
Carsten

[James Tabor]

Here is the SF one,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/

2011/1/27 Carsten Krüger [e-mail]:
> Hello Zachary,
> > The developer of the project would have to ask us to sign it.  You're free
> > to email him and let him know we offer the service.
>
> I think the project is abandoned.
> The official homepage is down, last version from archive.org
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080424120409/http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/...
> Someone has created a mirror on sourceforge but it's not the original author (I don't
> even think it's a software developer)
> That's the reason why I posted to reactos mailinglist directly :-)
>
> I've now written an email to the original author
> Ken Kato ([e-mail])
> but I don't know if he will answer.
>
> greetings
> Carsten

[Carsten Krüger]

Hello,

I've tried to contact the original author, he didn't reply.
> Here is the SF one,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/

That is only a copy that "someone" (some user that likes virtual
floppy drive) published on the web, not the real author.

Could the react os foundation sign the abandoned binary and publish
it itself?

Or other idea:

Would it help if I register myself at sf.net etc. and publish the signed binaries there?
I've no problem to do it that way and to properly authenticate myself
to react os foundation, if that's necessary.

greetings
Carsten

[Zachary Gorden]

We would have to build the driver ourself.  Aleksey, any objections to this?

2011/6/5 Carsten Krüger [e-mail]
> Hello,
>
> I've tried to contact the original author, he didn't reply.
> > Here is the SF one,
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/
>
> That is only a copy that "someone" (some user that likes virtual
> floppy drive) published on the web, not the real author.
>
> Could the react os foundation sign the abandoned binary and publish
> it itself?
>
> Or other idea:
>
> Would it help if I register myself at sf.net etc. and publish the signed
> binaries there?
> I've no problem to do it that way and to properly authenticate myself
> to react os foundation, if that's necessary.
>
> greetings
> Carsten
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Carsten Krüger]

> We would have to build the driver ourself.  Aleksey, any objections to this?

Great.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/files/2.1%20(February%2006%2C%202008)/vf...

That source file is unchanged, the old file on my hdd has the same
hashes:
CRC32: 3E70D725
MD5: 4E006C318A92DD5C16914D54DB0E2826
SHA-1: B5B2B0C245B7802A23A79BBD013E099DC9BE590A

One or two lines of code have to be patched according to "64 bit compilation" on the old page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090228192214/http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/...

greetings

Carsten