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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jerry Toung <jrytoung@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: encrypted executables
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On 2008-02-19 02:39, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> wrote:
>On 2008-02-19 02:18, Jerry Toung wrote:
>> anybody knows of a tool to encrypt executables under FreeBSD? may be
>> from the ports?
>>
>> I am not talking about simple file encryption.
>
> Can you elaborate on what you *are* talking about then?  Some
> security-by-obscurity scheme, perhaps? :)

Encrypted executables, using some sort of stream or block cipher may not
be something which looks *very* useful, but there are a few interesting
things which can be done with executable encryption and signatures.

One of them is described here:
http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/signed_solaris_10_binaries