symbol hiding

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 12:39:51 -0700, Dan Timis wrote:
> Actually, we do have an encryption system, and it is the name of the 
> functions used internally by the encryption library that we want to 
> hide.  It is not for hiding trade secrets, but to prevent dishonest 
> customers from accessing features without paying for them.  This has 
> been already used successfully on Mac and Windows where it is very easy 
> to hide those names.
> 
> Doing this will not make our copy protection full proof, but will slow 
> down the inevitable hack.  Hopefully, by the time someone will crack 
> our copy protection we will have a new stronger version.

That sounds fair enough. You have piqued my curiousity now, I think I'll
have to add a symbol table scrambler to my binary-utils todo list :)