Reversing : The Hacker's Guide to Reverse Engineering

Microsoft, and many others. These organizations have undoubtedly been suf- fering great losses due to software piracy, but these ...

It is very easy to see logically why in order to create a truly secure protection technology there must be a secure trusted comp ...

Developers of copy protection technologies often make huge efforts to develop robust copy protection mechanisms. The problem is ...

The Theoretically Uncrackable Model Let’s ignore the current computing architectures and try to envision and define the perfect ...

Serial Numbers Employing product serial numbers to deter software pirates is one of the most common ways to combat software pira ...

then sent to the software vendor (either through the Internet connection or manually, by phone). The software vendor verifies th ...

required in order to run the program. One solution employed by some dongle developers has been to divide the program into numero ...

Advanced Protection Concepts The reality is that software-based solutions can never be made uncrackable. As long as the protecte ...

When an end user purchases a program, the software developer requests the user’s processor serial number, and then contacts the ...

they did just a few years ago. This means that the average PC can now easily store, record, and play back copyrighted content su ...

Regardless of how well the unencrypted digital content is protected within the computer, it is usually possible to perform an an ...

hidden within the file. The means for extracting the information from the data is usually kept secret (actually, the very existe ...

copyrighted material, the vendor encrypts the data using your system’s public key, which means that the data can only be used on ...

which, coupled with NGSCB-enabled hardware, will allow future versions of Windows to support the Nexus execution mode. Under the ...

just how long it is going to take crackers before they manage to lift that barrier. A more effective solution is to employ hardw ...

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327 There are many cases where it is beneficial to create software that is immune to reversing. This chapter presents the most p ...

users are outside of the developing organization and the software is not open source, you should probably consider introducing s ...

this book. This is accomplished by modifying the program’s layout, logic, data, and organization in a way that keeps it function ...

other strings, so that internal cross-references are not severed. The typical strategy is to have a program go over the executab ...