Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:51:23 -0300 From: "Thiago Damas" <tdamas@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: encrypted executables Message-ID: <f8e3d83f0802200451r463f188bn881268b9b2768846@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080219040912.GA14809@kobe.laptop> References: <86068e730802181718s1ad50d3axeae0dde119ddcf92@mail.gmail.com> <47BA3334.4040707@andric.com> <86068e730802181954t52e4e05ay65e04c5f6de9b78a@mail.gmail.com> <20080219040912.GA14809@kobe.laptop>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
And if you make a wrapper, and execute like a shell script: #!/usr/local/bin/mysecyritywrapper <...encryted code goes where...> In this way. it'll be hard to use truss, ktrace, strace etc... []s On Feb 19, 2008 1:09 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On 2008-02-18 19:54, Jerry Toung <jrytoung@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Feb 18, 2008 5:39 PM, 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? :) > > > > I need to encrypt elf binaries. I'd like to make it harder for the bad > > guy to reverse engineer my app. > > You know about truss/ktrace/strace already, right? > > It may be moot to encrypt the ELF binary, if the `bad guy' can access > the running image of the process *after* it has been decrypted to > execute. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f8e3d83f0802200451r463f188bn881268b9b2768846>