Re: Embedding resources in Static Cocoa Library
Re: Embedding resources in Static Cocoa Library
- Subject: Re: Embedding resources in Static Cocoa Library
- From: Andres Kievsky <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:21:15 +1300
- Acceptlanguage: en-US, en-NZ
- Thread-topic: Embedding resources in Static Cocoa Library
Anyone with a debugger and minimal knowledge of assembly can crack and patch your executable in 15 minutes. I used to do it myself when I was 16. Instead of wasting time on this, focus on making your application better.
-- ank
On 09/10/2012, at 12:15 PM, Alexander Bokovikov <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Oct 9, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Simone Tellini wrote:
>
>>
>> this is way overkill. You can simply write a simple utility to dump the content of your resource in a C file:
>>
>> static char foo[] = {
>> 0x01, 0x02, 0x03,
>> ...
>> };
>>
>> You don't need to use assembly nor to create bogus functions to get the address of foo.
>
> Oops… You haven't caught the idea… Everybody knows how to create a _data_ but I've described, how to _embed_ data into the _code_ segment. This way can be used if it's necessary to hide some data against patching.
> This code sample is related to software protection area.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
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