Probably $500/year for a signed driver is too much for a free programmer.
Actually, dev stated they were like
229$/year.
And even then, I guess he just stopped after first, given driver .sys wasn't recompiled anymore from like 2008 onward.
Anyway, point is the library was first created to workaround "normal people" practically unable to make a driver (possibly as a result of CAs not expecting Authenticode to really become this vital outside corporate environments).
Then GlobalSign
finally began to grant certificates to single individuals, and I guess sensing the possibility "security hole" his work opened wasn't outweighed by any actually bigger call (possibly further fearing that one day his certificate could be revoked thus breaking already existing genuine derivative programs) he ragequitted.
I mean, it may even make sense given it's not nice to see your name/certificate used in malware.
And in some way I can even bear
with him when he says he won't even re-publish [older] sources because he doesn't think most can understand the "burden" imposed by so much power,
preferring instead to redirect it to WinRing0 2.0.0.
But after just some weeks he took
that down too!
Calling for a
reset or wtf else.
The scarcity of the public availability of this latest release possibly being why there was basically nothing about it on the web.
Funny, since so (and after quite a lot of
hours spent digging) I could only go as far as reconstructing 1.3.1b.
Enjoy!
Also attached OlsMsrEditor 1.3 given it shared a similar fate.