Quote:Original post by Scoob DroolinsNo, they won't even bother extracting it, they'll just make a program that loads your program, sets up the right information (like putting a 'return' intruction at the end of the decrypt part if it doesn't have one, setting up the arguments to the function, etc), and jumps straight into your code.
'm thinking that people trying to crack encrypted files are not going to figure out how your encryption algorithm works. they're going to look for a 'black box' in your code that takes in an encrypted file, and spits out a decrypted file. then they will try to extract this code, and make it into a stand-alone app that decrypts your files. if so, then there are tactics one can do to make the job of extracting code more difficult. any validity to this notion?
Then later, the psuedo-encryption will be examined by somebody bored, and they'll write their own library that anybody can use to encrypt and decrypt using the right algorithm.
