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Update of WWF-VFP, a tool to protect from decompilations
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22/11/2001 03:11:35
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00574338
Message ID:
00584824
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[Refox]
> > level II branded app [...] brute-force those parameters? Ballpark figure.
> forever.

A couple of seconds.

Most bits of the obsfuscation parameters can be computed mathematically which means you need to brute-force only about 24 bits. In real-life terms this means, for example, that brute-forcing would be quicker than downloading the branded runtime dll via modem to look up the parameters.
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