RE: [PHP] Genus who came up with Self Destruct Code Copy Protection

2002-05-14 Thread Miguel Cruz
Step 1: Run the files through a prettyprinter. That instantly restores the indentation and line breaks. Step 2: Open up in a text editor like TextPad that has multi-file search-and-replace and rename all the functions back from their garbled names as you determine what they do. Unless it was

Re: [PHP] Genus who came up with Self Destruct Code Copy Protection

2002-05-14 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jason Wong wrote: That's exactly what you need :) Have some core functions that are remotely accessed. for example: $result = file(http://www.myserver.com/functions/square_root.php?input=4;); Then at www.myserver.com the square_root.php file would contain: ?

Re: [PHP] Genus who came up with Self Destruct Code Copy Protection

2002-05-13 Thread Miguel Cruz
On 13 May 2002, Udo Giacomozzi wrote: If the whole thing is designed the right way. A copy protection I like for example are dongles. Ok, they are not applicable to PHP and aren't 100% secure either [don't want to start a discussion about this now]. But this system makes no problems for

RE: [PHP] Genus who came up with Self Destruct Code Copy Protection

2002-05-13 Thread Miguel Cruz
Well, I promise you that I can re-activate any solely PHP-based remote killswitch in a matter of minutes - maybe hours if the person was really good. It's just too easy when you have the source code for the interpreter. Likewise the only truly effective PHP encoder would be one that created