exeCryptor

[Kenneth Porter]

http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor.asp

Anyone have experience with this on WINE?

Another developer pointed this out to me for use with a Windows binary, and 
is not releasing Linux betas because there's no native Linux equivalent. 
(The app works fine native in Linux, but the dev want's to prevent 
unauthorized use until GA.)

[Mike Hearn]

On Sun, 15 May 2005 11:17:15 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Another developer pointed this out to me for use with a Windows binary, and 
> is not releasing Linux betas because there's no native Linux equivalent. 
> (The app works fine native in Linux, but the dev want's to prevent 
> unauthorized use until GA.)

The lack of any decent copy protection on Linux *is* a problem. There is
Shiva but it's quite old and has a crack available for it. The problem is,
I don't think there is quite enough demand to spur a commercial
development of one (and I fail to see how to make an open source copy
protection system without hardware support).

As to whether he can use exeCryptor on a native Linux app, no, I'm afraid
that's not possible. It might work in Wine but then you'd have to run the
Windows version of this app.

thanks -mike

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, May 16, 2005 1:15 PM +0100 Mike Hearn  
wrote:
> As to whether he can use exeCryptor on a native Linux app, no, I'm afraid
> that's not possible. It might work in Wine but then you'd have to run the
> Windows version of this app.

I'm wondering how effective the program can be within WINE. It supposedly 
detects and resists attempts to debug encrypted applications to break the 
code, but can it do so with WINE's virtualized environment? Wouldn't WINE 
(or other virtual OS apps like VMWare) make a great cracking tool for this?

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 14:11:57 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I'm wondering how effective the program can be within WINE. It supposedly 
> detects and resists attempts to debug encrypted applications to break the 
> code, but can it do so with WINE's virtualized environment? Wouldn't WINE 
> (or other virtual OS apps like VMWare) make a great cracking tool for this?

Actually they generally work pretty well (assuming they run correctly).
It's quite hard to figure out what they're doing even when run within Wine.

thanks -mike

exeCryptor [JT]

[Vitaly Lipatov]

В сообщении от 16 Май 2005 16:15 Mike Hearn написал(a):
> The lack of any decent copy protection on Linux *is* a problem. There is
> Shiva but it's quite old and has a crack available for it. The problem is,

What about HASP protection? It supports USB HASP key under Linux.
http://www.aladdin.com/hasp/default.asp