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Subject: The case against Patriot

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:19:51 05/05/05


Vladimir Yelin runs his binary through an obfuscator to hide strings in the
executable:

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
--------------------------------------------
- ORiEN executable files protection system -
------ Created by A. Fisun, 1994-2003 ------
------- WWW: http://zalexf.narod.ru/ -------
-------- e-mail: zalexf@hotmail.ru ---------
--------------------------------------------
Well, you got this text, but this will be all you get :)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There is no reason to do that, unless you have something to hide.  String tables
will not have any effect on playing strength and there are no things in the
internal strings of the program that need to be hidden.  (IMO-YMMV)

The new binary is much smaller than the previous binary (being the same size as
Toga II now)

The new binary does not perform EGTB lookups (why suddenly drop this
capability)?

The new binary does not understand the Winboard interface (and the old binary
only did Winboard and not UCI)

The new binary makes the same _mistakes_ that Toga II makes, and Toga II
mistakes are quite rare.

There is no sure evidence that Vladimir Yelin has done anything wrong.  But
there is a lot of circumstantial evidence.  I would like to hear what he has to
say.



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