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Dea friends,

I want to sell my software as a executable package and I am worried about the hacker to resource my product, please let me know what is the best and safest solution to protect my product.

In case that you offer a third party's product that I have to buy please let me know.

Regards

Posted 30-Dec-10 4:54am

albert sh

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Dec-10 12:48pm

Could you rename the title?
The terminology in "the hacker to resource my product" is wrong. Right term is "reverse engineer".
I decided to look at your post because I was puzzled but curious to see what weird thing is covered under "anti resource".

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Solution 2

I'm not sure what you mean by "resource" but if you mean "resell" or use without purchasing, then you have a bigger problem. Simply obfuscating won't keep someone from making copies and using the copies. You'll need to take one of several approaches to licensing, none of which is very palatable in my estimation.

Posted 30-Dec-10 6:24am

Dr.Walt Fair, PE

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fjdiewornncalwe 30-Dec-10 12:39pm

Agreed... Think of all the top software houses in the world, especially game developers. They all have copy protection schemes, activation code schemes and such, but how hard is it really to find a hacked copy. That means that if someone wants it bad enough and knows how to do it, they'll hack it.

albert sh 1-Jan-11 0:35am

Hi Walt,

Thank you for your comment, What I meant by resource is reverse engineering to find my .net source files from the exe.

But As you said I need a licensing software too and there are a lot of them , do you have any experience from any of them, which one is more secure?

Thanks

jmcc2k 3-Jan-11 1:22am

For licensing and copy protection, try CryptoLicensing from http://www.ssware.com

Solution 3

Technically the crackers are the bad ones, and the hackers are the good ones :)

Posted 30-Dec-10 9:37am

LloydA111

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albert sh 1-Jan-11 0:52am

what is the difference between them

LloydA111 1-Jan-11 9:16am

Google.

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-30T04:58:00

Solution 1

You need to obfuscate your application. There are a number of commercial packages available for this. Google ".Net obfuscator tool", and you'll get plenty of viable links.

Some I found:

Crypto Obfuscator
Smart Assembly
.Net Reactor
Seabreeze Obfuscator
Babel Obfuscator
Code Fort

and others...

I would mention Dotfuscator, but I don't know anyone that can afford it...

Posted 30-Dec-10 4:58am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 30-Dec-10 13:48pm

Hi John, have you decided on your own choice yet?
What about the one you won, can you still claim it?
("anyone ~~that~~ who can afford it") :)

#realJSOP 30-Dec-10 14:15pm

I download the one I won (Crypto Obfuscator), and will be trying it this weekend if time permits (I still have the email with the registration key in it).

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 30-Dec-10 14:34pm

If it's not too much to ask, can we expect a report on your findings?

albert sh 1-Jan-11 0:31am

Hi john,

As you said there are a lot of them but please let me know which of them is more secure and their crack is not available .

Thanks again