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Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On 2008-02-18 19:54, Jerry Toung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >On Feb 18, 2008 5:39 PM, Dimitry Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >>On 2008-02-19 02:18, Jerry Toung wrote:
: >>> anybody knows of a tool to encrypt executables under FreeBSD? may be
: >>> from the ports? I am not talking about simple file encryption.
: >>
: >> Can you elaborate on what you *are* talking about then? Some
: >> security-by-obscurity scheme, perhaps? :)
: >
: > I need to encrypt elf binaries. I'd like to make it harder for the bad
: > guy to reverse engineer my app.
:
: You know about truss/ktrace/strace already, right?
:
: It may be moot to encrypt the ELF binary, if the `bad guy' can access
: the running image of the process *after* it has been decrypted to
: execute.
kill -ABRT
will generate a core file.
Often times, the core file can be quite useful in recovering the
original executable.
emacs has used this technique for years to 'preload' stuff, take a
core dump, then re-run the core file after some post-processing.
Warner
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