Tag Archive for 'Protection'

Great article about protecting your SWFs

Published on December 11, 2009 in to think. 2 Comments Tags: , .

I recommend everyone to read this. Though you should know that there’s no 100% protection. If someone wants to hack your application they will. It’s a matter of time and money.

The easiest way to protect your code

Published on November 8, 2009 in to code. 2 Comments Tags: , .

I heard on Russian twitter that flash decompilers fail to parse embeded binary data (for example another SWFs). Tested it locally and that rendered to be true — the content of embeded SWF was impossible to extract. That seemed so simple yet effective. Just use something like

[Embed(source="swf.swf", mimeType="application/octet-stream")]

Someone could write a simple command line script to split SWFs into several parts to embed them inside a loader SWF and assemble again. Or it’s possible to add simple encryption to go further.

This idea is indeed very simple so someone might have made a tool like this already. I didn’t find a tool but I did find a post about this technique. And since then I successfully used it in one of my projects.