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BillyColl · Oct 5th, 2006, 6:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Random Spirit

I can understand why someone might want to protect some clever algorithm but if you have to make the machine code twice as long and therfore less efficent is it really worth it.

There are people that get all cranky about java bytecode and .net's MSIL as they are not very hard to reverse engineer. In the end its not one clever algorithm that makes a piece of software great but the whole design, implementation and testing process. So if your competitor cant design and write software as well as you can (shown by the need to copy) they are hardly likely to make something better even if they did copy your clever algorithm.

There may be situations where you want your algorithm to remain secret such as in sercurity and encryption systems but on the whole i think its not that important.

EXECryptor http://www.strongbit.com is not to protect your 'secret algorithm' from your competitors. Its main goal to protect your commercial app (demo, trial) against cracks, keygens that make available your product for free to public. And EXECryptor really meets such needs. After I started to use it I've stopped to loose money from 'free availability' of my product.

DaWei · Oct 5th, 2006, 6:44 AM

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Arevos · Oct 5th, 2006, 8:48 AM

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Originally Posted by BillyColl

And EXECryptor really meets such needs. After I started to use it I've stopped to loose money from 'free availability' of my product.

Can you be sure that's certainly the case? It seems to me that the kind of people who would go to the trouble of cracking some software in order to use it illegally, are usually not the type of people to then buy the software at full price should their attempts at cracking fail.

Arevos · Oct 5th, 2006, 8:48 AM

Ah, I understand DaWei's point now. Nevermind

-=PARADOX=- · Oct 10th, 2006, 6:54 PM

If you want to protect your program to the users try it, i think the best way to do this is to make a demo of your program, not a shareware with serial or patch protection. If the users like the demo, then they pay and they get the real software.

_James_ · Oct 10th, 2006, 7:10 PM

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Originally Posted by -=PARADOX=-

If you want to protect your program to the users try it, i think the best way to do this is to make a demo of your program, not a shareware with serial or patch protection. If the users like the demo, then they pay and they get the real software.

I must be drunk becuase that made little sense to me. I think you have missed the point by about a light year.

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Oct 5th, 2006, 8:48 AM	#34
Arevos Programming Guru Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,499 Rep Power: 5	Ah, I understand DaWei's point now. Nevermind

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-=PARADOX=- Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Portugal Posts: 53 Rep Power: 3	If you want to protect your program to the users try it, i think the best way to do this is to make a demo of your program, not a shareware with serial or patch protection. If the users like the demo, then they pay and they get the real software.

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