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Crackproof Your Software: Protect Your Software Against Crackers
Author(s): Pavol Cerven (Author)
- Publisher: No Starch Pr
- Publication Date: October 1, 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1886411794
- ISBN-13: 9781886411791
Book Description
This software protection guide describes the various ways crackers break registration keys, circumvent original CD checks, disable time limitations, and otherwise neutralize software protections. It identifies the most frequent weaknesses in software protection, describes the programs crackers use, and covers anti-debugging and anti-disassembling tricks. A companion CD contains dozens of compression and encoding programs for protection, debuggers and anti-debugging tools, and demonstrations of protection programs. Cerven is a software security expert. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…an excellent read.” — LinuxLookup
“A must-read for shareware programmers who want to protect their work. Comprehensive and well-written coverage of the topic.” —
About.com, February 2004“You can hold off the crackers a good long time with the ideas in … [this] book by No Starch Press.” —
Gerard Beekmans, DevChannel.orgAbout the Author
Pavol Cerven is a software developer with Alcatel. After a brief stint in the world of PC viruses, he now works to protect software against unauthorized copying.
