Re: LZ: Self Encrypting Programs

Re: LZ: Self Encrypting Programs

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• Subject: Re: LZ: Self Encrypting Programs
• From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <dankna@bergen.org>
• Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:42:52 -0500 (EST)
• In-Reply-To: <32A3AE94.70BC@iserv.net>
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> If you have it rewrite itself at the begining it should loose the revert
> to original when it exits lots of computer programs did this to prevent
> people from modifying them.

  But you forgot - the 85 has no hard disk.  The "stored copy" is
literally running in place; there is no second copy, so it can't be
discarded.
  And couldn't someone just make a program to decrypt it and leave it that
way?

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