[casual_games] Current advice on SWF encryption?

[Austin Haas]

http://www.swftools.org/

swfdump can show you what information is readily available inside your swf. If you can see complete URLs as plain strings, then you might have a problem, for example.

-austin

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Austin Haas
Pet Tomato, Inc.
http://pettomato.com

On Fri Mar 13 09:01 , Matthew Ford wrote:

> Sorry, I don't have that link, I read it ages ago and of course it may have

> been unsubstantiated boasting, so I should not have blithely repeated it.

> But that brings up an interesting question-- is there some way I can find

> someone with the skills to test out my security and tell me how easy it is

> to steal my game, without risk of them actually stealing it? I need to find

> a kind of white-hat SWF hacker who might be willing to give me advice on how

> well my protection worked.

> 

> I think I will go with Kindisoft's secureSWF. Via this list and other

> channels I have heard the most good things about it. I'll report back on it

> once I see how it turned out. Thanks for the help!

> 

> * * *

> Matthew Ford - matthew at fordfam dot com - http://www.fordfam.com/matthew 

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]

> On Behalf Of Olivier Besson

> Sent: Saturday, 7 March 2009 5:16 AM

> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Current advice on SWF encryption?

> 

> Amayeta cracked? Didn't heard about this..

> Do you have a link about that?

> Regards,

> Olivier

> 

> Matthew Ford a écrit :

> >

> > Hello all—been on the list for years and I think this may be my 4^th 

> > post as I am mostly an absorber of advice, not an emitter yet. I am an 

> > indie developer, ex-game-industry designer and producer. See more at 

> > http://www.digitalcream.com.au/blog/ , 

> > http://twitter.com/MatthewMFord, etc.

> >

> > I am very soon going to be opening up private alpha testing of my 

> > Flash game, Taboo Snaps, and it’s time to look at SWF encryption. I 

> > had heard on this list that www.amayeta.com <http://www.amayeta.com> 

> > was good but elsewhere I read that it has been cracked. So I’d 

> > appreciate any advice on the current best encryption software and 

> > advice for keeping it hard to crack.

> >

> > I am currently sitelocking the game (swf checks it own loaderInfo.url 

> > and dies if it’s not my home domain) but eventually I will want the 

> > swf to be spread far and wide—it has imbedded ads and will revert to a 

> > demo mode if not on a blessed domain. So though sitelocking is some 

> > protection, of course if it is decrypted that sitelock can be taken out.

> >

> > I also have the game load XML files from my home domain and do 

> > sitelocking for that with my crossdomain.xml, but again, it can be got 

> > around once decrypted.

> >

> > Please catch me up on the latest greatest advice on encryption 

> > software and techniques, and of course let me know if any of the above 

> > is nonsensical!

> >

> > Kind regards,

> >

> > Matthew Ford

> >

> > Matthew at fordfam dot com

> >

> > http://www.digitalcream.com.au/blog/

> >

> > http://twitter.com/DCgames

> >

> > http://twitter.com/MatthewMFord

> >

> > http://www.fordfam.com/matthew

> >

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