Sid Sacek wrote:
Does boost have any compile-time classes for string encryption? Is it even possible?
When a hacker dumps an executable, they can see all of the strings the program might use, and some of those strings may contain sensitive information. Does boost have any classes that can encode the strings at compile-time? Ideally, the third string in the code below would never compile the "secret" string into the final binary.
Regards,
-Sid
Sid, I made my original suggestion based on being both a virus analyst by profession and game hacker by hobby. No offense to the suggestions that have been made by others on this mail list[1], but they all appear to suffer the same problem in that laymen are suggesting solutions that not even professionals have completely solved. I understand that you are looking for simple techniques to "thwart noobs from haxxing your shizzle", but in reality, anyone unable to bypass the methods suggested would be unable to bypass a plain text target. Rolling your own solution has so many problems that I cannot even begin to tackle them here. You'll be much better off using an off the shelf protection mechanism. If you're really itching to try your hand, look at pecompact which allows you to provide your own decryption/encryption algorithm on top of their packer. [1]. Edouard's suggestion appears to imply that he has at least a cursory introduction to the problems faced by anti-piracy/anti-reverse engineering experts.