i have created my script a month ago. and it is perfect and usable for today. Perhaps it isn’t attractive for the future. So consider i can’t postpone release date and trying max.net and recoding it for the far future.
please suggest a way to protect a maxscript file and abandon other alternative possibilities.
thanks for your help
So would someone care to take the 6 seconds or so to decrypt the attached script and print a full plain text version here?
it’s [color=yellow]illegal to do such things. and i strictly recommend do not post any “decrypters”…[/color]
No, but I will tell you that you made a spelling error in the comment on line 6, column 18.
Interesting.
Well, assuming you can see the entire script and not just that segment then this has enormous repercussions for lots of us.
I’ve always assumed there were ways of hacking scripts to get round serial protections etc, but if you can actually decrpyt the entire script into plane text then that’s terrible news for the commercial scripters.
the bad news is not that biddle can decrypt a script, the bad news (not new for me) is that anyone else can do it…
Yeah, I felt the same way when I was through poking around. I hope you will agree with me that knowing what you are really up against with respect to MSE files is better than operating with a false (or at least elevated) sense of security.
Assuming .mse are easily decriptable, I’d like to know if you get the whole text or just bits, or messed up. I’m going to publish a script of about thirty thousand lines of code, divided into several files. It’s not a big issue if a spiteful person can read something here and there, because will hardly get the whole picture.
On the other hand, I’d like to know if there are better methods not involving the SDK (read: NOT compiling and publishing multiple script versions) to obtain affordable code obfuscation.
- Enrico
suppose that someone has a personal computer with a pci network card and he or she chanegs his/her nic. so this function denies his mac-address after this exchange!
I think it is not a perfect and coherent way to keeping a license by mac address! what do you think the better way is?
by the way, when i print [b][b]hardwareLockID it returns 0! why?
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Strongly not recommend using hardwareLockID.
In Different versions of 3dsMax hardwareLockID will be different.
Any issues with Mac…
During the test, you have opened 3d Max?
You close the source of encrypted script into the script editor and then restarted Windows?
After to do this your run test …
I think- it is not so easy – especially for large scripts.