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Subject: Re: OT: hiding strings in .exe

Author: Brian Kostick

Date: 12:34:31 04/27/05

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On April 27, 2005 at 13:31:34, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 27, 2005 at 11:57:56, Brian Kostick wrote:
>
>>I wrote a little password masking function for Win32 console. I'd like to hide
>>string literals in my executable.
>
>Why?
>
>>I know such things have been mentioned here
>>before for more clandestine purposes. My question is, is there an easiest way to
>>do this or should I use an encryption or lookup function?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Brian


Hello Dann,

  For the reason mentioned by Dr. Hyatt. So the strings are not easy to detect
in the executable. What good a password when it's to easy to open the file in a
hex editor or notepad?

Thanks,
Brian

• Re: OT: hiding strings in .exe Dieter Buerssner 12:42:41 04/27/05
  • Re: OT: hiding strings in .exe Brian Kostick 13:57:45 04/27/05

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