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exactly, it loads imports from saved are, while it forgot to strip original imoprt!!
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He said that he forgot to fix it

ya, i also did a loader.

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well... got nuttin to do this night, i'ma get my hands on it just to get some stuff to unpack.
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Code-Lock is *very* lame. By it's very nature it is either very secure or not secure at all. I know that sentence doesn't make much sense, but let me explain.

In the sense of the 'rigged' contest, it is near impossible to crack it. If you have a purchased app protected with this and a serial it couldn't be easier.

Basically (as I remember - it has been a long time since I have seen it), it works by bundling a shareware version of your app and the registered version in a .DAT file which is really a slightly modified encrypted ZIP archive.

Bruteforcing the challenge .DAT will be rather difficult due to the password length, but anyone who has a valid serial for an app protected with this crap will be able to unpack it in no time. No doubt the archive encryption key is included in the serial.

As it is aimed at the typical Visual Basic programmer, no app protected by it is of much interest to anyone around here. Even with the author's previous goading (yes, he reads this forum), it has never really captured anyone's attention.

If the author is reading this, your 'failure' list is false - I know of nobody who has taken up your rigged challenge. Asking people to participate and them ignoring you does not count!

Provide a protected app *with valid serial* and see how long it lasts. Security through obscurity is really no security at all. Lamer!

Dzg.


Oh yeah, all text within this reply is (c) to myself so the author cannot use it for ANY purpose. I don't want to be misquoted on his stupid site E.G. 'it is near impossible to crack it'.

I had just recently taken a look at Code Lock and came up with the same conclusion, its challenge just a clever marketing campaighn which doesnt seem to have worked to well. The fact its zipped is rather obvious as it has zlib.dll which needs to be included with your application, for Visual Basic its next to useless as through various means someone can get a valid key and as you said decrypt the real exe. The only thing that slightly intrigued me about it was its use with .net, as I havent seen a .net protector with a encrypted section feature (there could be others I havent looked far and wide).

Hi Danzing,
Thnx for this expert opinion. Since i'm only 3 months old in this RE world i can't make any such opinions. I do surf great informative RE forums like Woodmann, Exetools, Anti-crack to gain knowledge from experts. I read on woodmann and anticrack about this so called Code-lok protector. I observe that no one will post any detail comments on this protector.So thats why i posted it here on exetools. We can see so many topics on ASPR and Armadillo. But this one codelok is always overlooked. So after visitng the authors website i concluded that this one is really unbreakable and the author boast of a countup on his homepage..lol. But after reading ur post i'm convinced that the reason for this is that there is no app protected by this protector to give it a shot! Like there are so many ASPR'd targets. For a moment i thought that the stereotype, "Every software protection is breakable with a good brain and patience", has been defeated by this Code-lok. But i'm glad to know that it's just another hoax

Regards,