Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:09:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jerry Toung <jrytoung@gmail.com> Subject: Re: encrypted executables Message-ID: <20080219020952.GA8914@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <47BA3334.4040707@andric.com> References: <86068e730802181718s1ad50d3axeae0dde119ddcf92@mail.gmail.com> <47BA3334.4040707@andric.com>
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On 2008-02-19 02:39, Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> 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? :) Encrypted executables, using some sort of stream or block cipher may not be something which looks *very* useful, but there are a few interesting things which can be done with executable encryption and signatures. One of them is described here: http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/signed_solaris_10_binaries
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