>Hi Jos,
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>I have said before that all protections that I have looked at including Armadillo, Thinstall, Molebox and Refox have been cracked within minutes by experts who make their living reverse engineering code
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>I am certainly upset by the "within minutes" wording. That said, if the crack word means "getting into a limited subset of the code based duly obfuscated", I am ready to buy "refox" or try defox...
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>Has anyone on this forum experienced an effective reverse-engineering of their VFP code? I do mean just cracking into a password scheme of course.

Francois, the cracking proves that the application can be reversed and your code & process techniques, possibly in a modified form, can be retrieved. The crack that these guys did shows that if they wanted to spend the time then they could get it all. No matter the protection scheme used it is not if it can be done but how long it will take and whether your adversary is prepared to expend the effort.