Floke Integrity

Floke Integrity (version 0.02) is a security application that protects the integrity of your files. Integrity is often a neglected part of computer security. Floke will use mathematically strong message- digest/hash functions (SHA-1, RIPEMD-160 or MD5) to make "fingerprints" of your files. These "fingerprints" are stored and checked against, when you fear that your files have been subject to tampering or changes from hardware/software malfunction. New in this release is increased user friendliness, with the use of Wizards and an overall face-lift. Includes source and documentation. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

Platform: Win32 (That is Windows 95/98/ME/2K etc.).

News

Wednesday the 15th of January 2003
It seems that Floke fails on most Windows 2000 systems with recent hotfixes. Since I feel that it becomes increasingly difficult to work with and maintain my ad-hoc spaghetti code, I've decided to start Floke from scratch. Now considering formal object oriented design and documentation paramount. Time allowing I'll post snapshots of the development here.

- Floke still works on Windows 9x. For Windows 2000 and XP please consider the Cygwin port of AIDE http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html

Monday the 5th of August 2002
I've had one report of Floke failing on a Windows 2000 system. I've failed to reproduce this on those Windows 2000 systems that I've access to. Please send any failure reports. Hopefully beta version 0,03b3, available below, should fix this.

Documentation

The documentation is available online http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wickmann/flokedoc002.html and in the main distribution archive.

Download

Floke is mainly distributed through Simtel.Net. Recent developments in the way Simtel.Net handles downloads, have resulted in confusion and dead download links. However Floke is still carried by Simtel.Net, and can be found at:

http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/37780.html

The archive size is 822011 bytes.

Inside the archive I've placed detached signatures of the files. Make sure to check the contents of the archive for authenticity with my OpenPGP/GnuPG/PGP public key. The public key is available here: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wickmann/contact.html.

Web-board

It seems to me that our web-board has disappeared, however it should exist here.

Development efforts towards v. 0.03

Goals:

Option to overwrite report file
Longer search pattern (limit of 46 increased to 256)
Statistics and progress bar
Differentiated versions (novice/expert/console)
A Wizard that will start the engine without exposing the user for the nasty animal under the hood.
Optimization
Optimized version for the P6 processors
More details (attributes) in the database
New format for the database file
Possibility to add more drives to one database
Option to include more details in the report
Possibility to add Floke to the Windows 98 task scheduler (AKA running it automatically).
More effective memory management.
An extensive default list of executable extensions

Goals as implemented in beta 1 (2001.08.09.):

Longer search pattern (limit of 46 increased to 256)
Statistics and progress bar
Optimization

Goals as implemented in beta 2 (2001.09.27.):

Longer search pattern (limit of 46 increased to 256)
Statistics and progress bar
Optimization
Static database, with user selection of files

Beta 3 (2002.08.05)

Possible support for some personal firewall (Atguard and NIS ?) (See static db), needs testing.
Possible solution to Windows 2000 failures

Beta versions

The current beta version is 0.03b3. Please download the executables from:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wickmann/fi003b3.zip [387kb]
and the source from:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wickmann/fi003b3s.zip [416kb]
OpenPGP signature.
Download a guide in PDF format. (old)