Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:09:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jerry Toung <jrytoung@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Subject: Re: encrypted executables Message-ID: <20080219040912.GA14809@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <86068e730802181954t52e4e05ay65e04c5f6de9b78a@mail.gmail.com> References: <86068e730802181718s1ad50d3axeae0dde119ddcf92@mail.gmail.com> <47BA3334.4040707@andric.com> <86068e730802181954t52e4e05ay65e04c5f6de9b78a@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2008-02-18 19:54, Jerry Toung <jrytoung@gmail.com> wrote: >On Feb 18, 2008 5:39 PM, 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? :) > > I need to encrypt elf binaries. I'd like to make it harder for the bad > guy to reverse engineer my app. You know about truss/ktrace/strace already, right? It may be moot to encrypt the ELF binary, if the `bad guy' can access the running image of the process *after* it has been decrypted to execute.
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