C++ Programming :: How protect executable by resource editing?


	How protect executable by resource editing? Hi! I have meke a simple programs on c++ with visual studio. The program have a dll where I put my name e my personal details. I realize that anybody can take my executable file and with a simpli resource editor can be edit, delete or replace my details with other data. How can block this possibility? How can prevent the resource editing? It's possible? Thanks. On 5 28 , 7 44 , "ovatta" <ova@libero.it> wrote: > Hi! > I have meke a simple programs on c++ with visual studio. > The program have a dll where I put my name e my personal details. > I realize that anybody can take my executable file and with a simpli > resource editor can be edit, delete or replace my details with other data. > How can block this possibility? How can prevent the resource editing? It's > possible? > Thanks. You can encrypt the personal details and put the encrypted string into executable. You program then decrypt the encrypted information when need. On 28 Maj, 13:44, "ovatta" <ova@libero.it> wrote: > Hi! > I have meke a simple programs on c++ with visual studio. > The program have a dll where I put my name e my personal details. > I realize that anybody can take my executable file and with a simpli > resource editor can be edit, delete or replace my details with other data. > How can block this possibility? How can prevent the resource editing? It's > possible? Calculate a checksum of the program that is checked in all/most functions in the DLL and if the checksum does not match then crash the program. Seriously though, why would you worry about that? I find it less than likely that someone would actually try to steal your work and pass it of as their own (I assume here that by personal information you mean copyright information, if it's something else it should not be in the file to start with). -- Erik Wikstrm "Erik Wikstrm" <eri@student.chalmers.se> wrote in...On 28 Maj, 13:44, "ovatta" <ova@libero.it> wrote: >Calculate a checksum of the program that is checked in all/most >functions in the DLL and if the checksum does not match then crash the >program. Thanks! This is a great idea!! Now I try it!! Thanks so much! >Seriously though, why would you worry about that? I find it less than >likely that someone would actually try to steal your work and pass it >of as their own (I assume here that by personal information you mean >copyright information, if it's something else it should not be in the >file to start with). Yes, this is my foible. But shortly I would like to put my programs on internet, how free programs, and my only request is that my programs remain unchanged. Thank for your help! - Hide quoted text - ovatta wrote: > "Erik Wikstrm" <eri@student.chalmers.se> wrote in...On 28 Maj, 13:44, > "ovatta" <ova@libero.it> wrote: >> Calculate a checksum of the program that is checked in all/most >> functions in the DLL and if the checksum does not match then crash the >> program. > Thanks! This is a great idea!! Now I try it!! Thanks so much! >> Seriously though, why would you worry about that? I find it less than >> likely that someone would actually try to steal your work and pass it >> of as their own (I assume here that by personal information you mean >> copyright information, if it's something else it should not be in the >> file to start with). > Yes, this is my foible. But shortly I would like to put my programs on > internet, how free programs, and my only request is that my programs remain > unchanged. > Thank for your help! Don't waste your time "protecting" against this. Focus on the fact that the honest users will honor your request to not change things. The honest users are the majority. The only two ways to keep someone in the non-honest minority from changing your program without asking are: 1) Don't release your program or 2) Make your program completely undesirable