A word to the wise:

This is a forum largely populated with professional developers who make their living from intellectual property (IP). Many go to considerable lengths to protect their IP.

You're asking us to help you break the protection on another developer's IP. You're not going to get much help or sympathy here.

The fact that you've already decompiled the application means you've likely already violated the terms of the license agreement and may already be subject to legal penalties.

If you want to obtain the data in unencrypted form you need to negotiate with the application vendor, not try to circumvent their protection.

>I have a CD with an encrypted database (DBF) in which the data of some columns appears as strange characters and cannot be read by any DBF viewer or in Excel. The only program that show this dB correctly is
>the EXE files that comes with the CD. But the searching mechanism of this EXE is poor and I cannot filter the data as I would like.
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>I got a decompiler that shows me the line codes of this EXE (created in Fox Pro 6) but as I am not good in programming, I don't know what I can do to begin decrypting the database, that's why I am asking you for help.
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>Can I decrypt the DBF with the line codes in my hand? If yes, how? What should I look for?
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>Can the line codes contain the algorithm? I identify a code as being a password in the file start.fxp... but I do not know if it would help ( password = 'XXXXX')
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>What would be the better (and easier) option? Try do decrypt the database or modify the searching mecanism on the exe file?
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>Thank you very much beforehand for your help.
>Regards from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil,
>Dan.