String in the exe file.

[Boki Digtal]

Hi All,

I have some special strings in c# code, and I complier it to exe file.

I opened the exe file by a UltraEdit, I can't find the string I define
in code.

Does that mean other people can't find the string as well?

Best regards,
Boki.

[ClayB]

Re: String in the exe file.

Someone could probably use tools like ILDASM.EXE (ships with .NET SDK)
or .Net Reflector (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) to see strings
in an .NET exe file.

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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

[Mihai N.]

Re: String in the exe file.

I have some special strings in c# code, and I complier it to exe file.

>
I opened the exe file by a UltraEdit, I can't find the string I define
in code.

They are stored as UTF-16.

This means that
"Hello"
will not be stored as
48 65 6c 6c 6f
but as
48 00 65 00 6c 00 6c 00 6f 00


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[Boki Digtal]

Re: String in the exe file.

On 7 23 , 4 30 , ClayB <cl...@syncfusi on.comwrote:

Someone could probably use tools like ILDASM.EXE (ships with .NET SDK)
or .Net Reflector (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) to see strings
in an .NET exe file.
>
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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

OK, sounds very easy.

What's the .NET programmer's solution ?

Use a obfuscator?

Thanks!
Boki.

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: String in the exe file.

"Boki Digtal" <bokiteam@ms21. hinet.netwrote in message
news:1185182183 .219772.246960@ i13g2000prf.goo glegroups.com.. .

Use a obfuscator?

Obfuscation will probably keep out the merely curious, but will certainly
not stop a determined hacker...

You could always encrypt the strings before storing them...


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ASP.NET MVP

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