Re: LZ: Self Encrypting Programs
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Re: LZ: Self Encrypting Programs
I'm not worried about people stealing the code to programs, I was just
expounding my thoughts about the subject to see what others had to say. I
was thinking of sending the encryption routine (along with some other
routines) to TICALC.ORG to give others an idea about how to write such
routines. Just wanted to see what you guys had to say.
Thanks,
Michael Wyman
wyma0012@gold.tc.umn.edu
On Mon, 02 Dec 1996 16:50:18 -0800,
Eric Barker wrote...
>Michael Wyman wrote:
>>
>> I had a thought a while ago, about making a program self encrypting (and
>> decrypting) so that while the program is running, the code is decrypted
>and
>> in the actual opcodes. When the program exits, it encrypts itself,
>thereby
>> making it virtually impossible to decompile unless somebody has a lot of
>> time on their hands, as well as hiding the location of variables
>> (passwords and such). Tell me what you think!
>
>Way waste that time? Encryption is mostly used for if you don't want
>people to get there hands on your code. I don't know about you, but
>probably 75% of all the ZShell programmers are at this list or ZS-Adv.
>We shouldn't have to worry about "stealing" other peoples stuff. If
>we start to have problems, then it might become neccessary. But
>ZShell has been going on for a couple years now without any major
>problems. For one thing, new people may find it helpfull to look at
>other peoples code to see what they've done.
>
>Eric Barker
>
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