Author: David Dahlem
Date: 09:13:52 05/06/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 17:19:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >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) Hi Dann Version 1.3.0 does support UCI. From the output in console mode: Version: WB/UCI/UCI2 Patriot 1.3.0 Regards Dave > >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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