Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:21:49 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 12:07:35, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On September 23, 2002 at 11:29:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 23, 2002 at 08:26:30, Steffen Jakob wrote: >> >>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:20:06, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>> >>>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:11:09, Steffen Jakob wrote: >>>> >>>>>Besides that I - same as Uli - don't have enough fantasy to think of a >>>>>way of how this could be done. >>>> >>>>your fantasy is limited ?? >>> >>>Hi Thorsten, >>> >>>if yours isn't then please tell me a way how to take an existing engine which >>>must be a commercial one if the posted results are true and wrap it into >>>something which ruffian provides. >> >> >>This has already been done. Take a hex editor. Edit the executable. Change >>strings to anything you want. Different commands. Different filenames. >>Different greeting. Different everything except for executable code. No idea >>if this was or was not done. But it has been done in the past... > >I said "into something which ruffian provides.": UCI engine, Winboard engine, >and support of different Unix platforms (I have no reasons to assume that those >will not be available soon, as it was posted here). > >It will be interesting to do this with a hex editor :) > >Greetings, >Steffen. Commercial engines and amateur engines already support winboard and UCI. So just changing the output strings to disguise it would be enough. You aren't going to add much in the way of new features using a hex editor and machine language, but you can definitely disguise things and make it hard to recognize the original programming.
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