Thank you for the information Doug! Very helpful.
JF
--- In [email protected], "Doug McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That last comment isn't true. The Sothink decompiler works just
fine on Flex
> swfs.
>
> Here's my experience with SWF Encrypt and SWC Encrypt:
>
> - We ran SWCEncrypt on a Flex SWC and then tried decompiling a
Flex app
> created with the encrypted SWC versus the unencrypted SWC. I
could not tell
> any difference whatsoever. Both decompiled just fine, it
appeared as if
> SWCEncrypt did absolutely nothing to the SWC file. I don't know
if we were
> doing soemthing wrong (although really how can you? you just run
it on a
> SWC), or if the encryptor doesn't support Flex SWCs specifically.
> - SWFEncrypt, on the other hand, works. But it does not work for
Flex
> swfs. If you try to encrypt a full Flex SWF the encryptor goes
overboard and
> jacks up the Flex framework code and makes your SWF unrunnable.
> - What did seem to work was creating a SWF module that did not
include
> the Flex framework code, encrypting that, and loading that
module into a
> wrapper Flex app.
> - Neither SWCEncrypt nor SWFEncrypt seems to actually "encrypt"
anything,
> All of it can still be decompiled with the Sothink decompiler
(maybe the
> decompiler just knows how to decrypt whatever encryption is
used).
> SWFEncrypt does seem to obfuscate the code though. A decompiled
SWF that has
> been run through SWFEncrypt is harder to read than a non-
obfuscated one.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Cato Paus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > right now the Flex framework is too much to decode. decoders
only
> > hang that I know of
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>,
Tom
> > Chiverton <tom.chiverton@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Monday 02 Jun 2008, jmfillman wrote:
> > > > Has anyone had experience using SWC Encrypt 2.0, by Amayeta?
Does
> > it
> > > > work, or would I just be wasting my money?
> > >
> > > Have you tried decompiling a swfencrypt'ed SWF ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tom Chiverton
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