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- From: brianmcg@interaccess.com (Brian V. McGroarty)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What Compression Program to use
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 02:30:27 GMT
- Organization: Internet Squire
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- Matt Gischer wrote:
- >Norman Bullen (nbullen@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
- >: dave robbins wrote:
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- >: > What compression program does everyone use too help encrypt the exe
- >: > files to keep prying eyes away with binary editors? I'm not real crazy
- >: > about paying the $275.00 dollars that PKware whants for theirs,
- >shareware
- >: > compression program would be fine.
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- >: > ---
- >: > Dave Robbins drobbins@servtech.com
- >: > Utica NY
- >: I think you have the wrong idea about compression. Compression is used to
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- >: make files smaller for easier transmission, whether across dial-up or
- >: network or via floppy disk or even CD-ROM. In order to use the files, you
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- >: have to decompress them and then they are exactly the way they were
- >: before compression and just as accessible to "prying eyes" with "binary
- >: editors."
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- >You seem to be confused. Pklite compresses executables that will still
- >run. so.. they are decompressed on the fly.
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- In either case, you can find a small program called "pkunlite" which will
- decompress any "pklite" file, even those created with the professional
- version.
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- I haven't seen any secure executable file compressors this side of a grand,
- however there are things you can do yourself. If you can tell me a bit
- about whether it is your data or your code which you are trying to protect,
- I can present a few methods I've used in the past which have worked fairly
- well.
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- Brian Valters McGroarty -- brianmcg@bix.com
- phone/fax (847) 439-7714
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