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Buzz #10
16 сентября 1997 |
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Newness - Description of the Paracels Alkatraz Protection v2.0
*** NEWNESS ***
(C) Paracels
Hi folks! Long time in our newspaper there was no rubric
"NEWNESS", but today we decided to make you a little
description (and, of course, advertising), the new system
program called "PARACELS ALKATRAZ PROTECTION" v1.2. Who is the
author of this prog, you've probably already guessed. ;-)
Before specifically to description of the features PAP'a, let
me digress ...
The problem of protecting programs interested me since the
beginning of times, and simply, I trudged from any protection
and, especially, XOR ' ca. Reflections on how to better and
better protect their prog from prying eyes (and not only)
turned into a sophisticated (read "Perverted") tricks and
attempts podlovki monitor (STS'a). But all the pitfalls in the
protection, sooner or later revealed by skilled hackers, and
sometimes too (!) skillful lamer. :-( By the first of my
attitude (and attitude) and calmly, even gratefully (after all,
thanks to hackers, which is the (so far) and I created a more
sophisticated protection, which were considered failures
earlier), but I was constantly tormented by the thought that
some lamer broke someone's prog, and right up there whatever
they want ...
In the end, I concluded that the surest way to hide
its code from unwanted viewing (and on ...) - a bunch of nested
very clever (which they can not be used to quickly roll out of
STS 'E) XOR'ok, it is nothing but ALKATRAZ PROTECTION. Why am I
so decided? It is very simple. All the jokes in favor of early
or will cease to be cool, they age and crack easily in the new
versions of monitors, debuggers. With the same ALKATRAZ'om
everything is different: the low version of monitors can do
"not understand" how it works XOR'ka, but with the advent of
new versions of virtually nothing has changed - an attacker
must, as always, sit and hours of tedious untwist XOR'ki (in
new versions of monitors, In addition, because of the emergence
of new features and other bells and whistles significantly
reduced the rate tracing, and this into the hands of those
someone puts on their bend protection type ALKATRAZ.
All the above arguments have pushed me to create PAP'a,
First v1.0, a more successful then v1.1, a description of where
you can read below. I hope I've convinced you of the benefits
of using ALKATRAZ'a, but despite this I was a fan of good
protection, based on the tricks and podlovkah, especially such
as in the ZX-FORMAT'e. Before you go directly to the
description, I want to tell you one more thing: break, but not
for vandalism and glory (as do the lamer), but for the sake of
learning.
At that enable her to finish the story, and stalking
proceed to describe the long-awaited ...
So, PAPv1.2 represents a program that allows free
Labour put on any type of protection code blocks ALKATRAZ. I'll
tell you everything in order.
When you run PAPv1.2 screen cleared and in its lower
part (off synchronously with the drive :-)) appears in the text
already appeared window. This is a brief description of the
program and its opportunities, as well as helloes' copyrights.
Scrolled text possible keys Q, A, O, P, and the keys SPACE you
run itself PAP.
The exterior design is very similar PAP'a DSQ (my favorite
cruncher for Speccy!) - Painfully, he liked me. In front of you
see a list of available commands, which are selected hot keys.
The choice should always be confirmed by pressing <ENTER>
Now, in order for all teams ...
'LOAD'
The first is a team <L> OAD. Selecting it, you can download
a code block to be protected. But there are several
limitations: firstly, if the starting address of your unit
below 24621, PAP will not allow you to download it and display
the message 'INVALID START ADDRESS! ', If the length of your
block of 40,915 or more equals 0, PAP answer 'BAD LENGHT!' and,
again, nothing to download. But if your unit is suitable for
all data, after loading the bowels inscription 'OK'. Teper and
you can protect your unit.
'PROTECT'
Team ROTECT is the whole point of the program,
it allows you to install on your code block protection type
ALKATRAZ, for which, indeed, is PAP. Clicking
, you will see
a sign 'QUANTITY OF XOR'ERS:' (Number of XOR ' OK:) what you
need to answer by writing the number xor'ok that You want to
protect your unit (it should not be greater than 255). If you
entered xor'ok Number does not fit, PAP will give message 'TOO
MUCH XORERS!' (Too many XOR'OK!) And show the maximum possible
number, and then ask 'Y / N?' - suits Are you a Number xor'ok
or not. If you press 'N', then exit back to the command line,
and if 'Y' - PAP begins zaksorivanie previously withdrawing
'PROCESSING ...'. Wait until appears on 'OK', and then go to
menu 'SAVE', to cancel a secure unit on the disk.
'SAVE'
Team AVE is designed to record the protected code
block on the disk (with attached loader'om or not). Pressing
, You see the words 'FILENAME:', inviting you to enter a name
file for writing. WARNING! PAP does not check disk space
file with the same name or not, and does not check Number
free space.
'HELP'
Team <H> ELP displays the same piece of paper that
at the beginning (after the launch PAP'a). Here you will find a
list of all available commands, as well as copyright and the
full name of the program.
'INFO'
Information about the author and a bunch of copyright'ov.
'QUIT'
Well, here, I think it's pretty clear ...
I want to reiterate that the teams are confirmed by pressing
<ENTER>.
A now that we can expect in future versions ...
√ fix bugs, if you discharge the same to light;
√ treatment of some disk errors;
√ xor'ka more fancy, but if it is not laziness, it bore
How many xor'ok;
√ Support CD-ROM, TV-TUNER'a, SOUND BLASTER'a, VGA, SVGA,
and a SGI. :-)
Well, tipaaa, and everything about the program. I welcome
your suggestions and reviews. C ya all!
Alexander (Paracels)
P.S. The program PAP v1.2 distributed under the shareware.