Oracle-L: Re: wrapping packages

From: Vladimir Begun <vladimir.begun_at_oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:39:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D09F9.20030921093943@fatcity.com>

Tanel Poder wrote:

>>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...

The word 'ecryption' is so amazing and enigmatic, probably that's why so many people are 'poisoned'.

>>>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

JFYI, people who made 4kb demos do share their code and ideas, in case one's really interested to get into this.

> 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 :)

:) I just think you have/had too much time and nothing serious and important to do.

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