Re: wrapping packages

> Tanel Poder wrote:
> > I checked, the wrap executable in 8.0.6 dist for solaris is about 3MB,
but
> > for 9.2 in Windows it's only about 40k.
>
> Perhaps you're not aware of the way executables compiled on your Solaris
and
> Windows platforms.

In detail, not. In general, yes.
Ok, I checked, you're correct, wrap isn't only this 40kB executable, uses orancrypt9.dll (100kB) in Windows, this might be the one where encryption is done...

>
> > It shouldn't be that hard to reverse engineer it.
>
> It's an extremely commendable plan... (a touch of irony here)

:)
I've dealt with disassembling before, back in old dos times (disassembling 4kB graphical intros and few viruses :). I don't think this is a hard job to do, it's just time consuming - it gets hard when the authors have planted debugger traps and various other tricks into the code that make the crackers life hard (or should I say interesting :)

Tanel.

>
> > Probably the ones who already have cracked the algorithm aren't
spreading
> > the knowledge - why should they anyway?!
>
> I suggest you to call Oracle legal and discuss this issue and your
> original plan of fixing it. :)
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