Protecting / Prevent reverse engineering from an application

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I'm trying to find a tool that could help me make the job harder for crackers/leechers to look into my stuff. I'm currently using VMWare but it'S kinda weak. Any suggestions?

Posted 24-Oct-15 13:15pm

daer trea

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Patrice T 24-Oct-15 22:47pm

"I'm currently using VMWare but it's kinda weak."
It is not weak, it is not its purpose.
If ever hackers learn that you use VMWare for this, it will be the best joke of the day.

daer trea 24-Oct-15 23:09pm

Any alternative then ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-15 0:52am

Any alternative to a wrong idea is another wrong idea.
—SA

[no name] 25-Oct-15 0:09am

Cracking and reverse engineering are not the same thing. Do you wish to enforce licensing or prevent reverse engineering of your technology. If the latter don't waste your time.

daer trea 25-Oct-15 0:37am

Prevent reverse engineering mostly. Tho if they can reverse it, they can just crack it.

[no name] 25-Oct-15 0:44am

Your objectives do not seem well thought out. The easy way to reverse engineer software is to look at what it does and copy it. A patent held by you may or may not prevent this. If you have some technology that is so sophisticated that nobody has ever come up with it then put it in the public domain. You may get a Nobel prize. As I said earlier this type of thinking is a complete waste of mental energy. Copy protection is another thing and there are ways of doing this - obfuscation not being one of them.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-15 0:52am

Agree!
—SA

daer trea 25-Oct-15 0:57am

I just want to make it harder for those who take a look at it in IDA, not just be straight code they can just redo cause they already know exactly how I do it.

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jgakenhe · Answer 1 · 2015-10-24T18:02:00

For C++ there are also online obfuscators such as http://stunnix.com/prod/cxxo/[^] that can keep your code from being reverse engineered.

For a windows application in VB or C# for example, protecting your compiled dll and exe files you need a code obfuscator. This will make reverse engineering with reflection very hard. Here's a program that can do that: http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/download.htm[^]

For a web application, there isn't much you can do but encode your HTML and hope the person trying to steal it isn't smart enough to figure out what you are doing. Some tools you can use are http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/DotNet/Tools/HTMLEncode/Encode.aspx[^] or http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/[^].