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Oct 30th, 2004, 01:19 PM
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Lib file decompile???
Can a compiled lib file in VC6 be decompiled????
Just curious as how easy it would be for someone to steal source from a lib file.
Is DLL more secure?
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Oct 30th, 2004, 06:44 PM
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No easier, it's all compiled code.
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Oct 30th, 2004, 08:24 PM
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So its fairly easy for both then.
So in other words I should really take no care in this topic...if someone is goona decompile it they will just go ahead and do so.
"From what was there, and was meant to be, but not of that was faded away." - - Steve Damm
"The polar opposite of nothingness is existance. When existance calls apon nothingness it shall return to nothingness." - - Steve Damm
"When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all." - - God from Futurama
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Oct 31st, 2004, 06:05 AM
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They won't get anything more than a disassembly out of compiled code, which is a huge chore to read. TBH it's not worth worrying about unless you're a major software developer or have some ground-breaking code 
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Oct 31st, 2004, 11:33 AM
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Azteched, I fully agree.
Although I am sure there is someone out there who would decompile my well-known intermediate code and pass it off as their own. There are alot of rude people out there.
"From what was there, and was meant to be, but not of that was faded away." - - Steve Damm
"The polar opposite of nothingness is existance. When existance calls apon nothingness it shall return to nothingness." - - Steve Damm
"When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all." - - God from Futurama
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Nov 1st, 2004, 02:12 PM
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Quite honestly, Halsafar, I do believe that someone capable of decompiling your .lib and actually understanding the result enough to use it and pass it off as his own - is capable of writing better code than you in the first place. This is not meant as a disrespect of you, but as a measure of how hard it is to understand the resutls of a decompiler.
Or put it another way: someone trying to pass the results of decompilation off as his own code would be laughed at. The code is unmaintainable and usually just bad.
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Nov 1st, 2004, 04:28 PM
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Good point CB.
Can't disagree with that.
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"The polar opposite of nothingness is existance. When existance calls apon nothingness it shall return to nothingness." - - Steve Damm
"When you do things right, people won't be sure if you did anything at all." - - God from Futurama
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