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Contact: Oleg SubachevCompany: 9Rays.NetE-mail: fortress@9rays.net
Rock-solid source code protection
Development of a commercial application never stops when the last line of code hasbeen written. Delivering the product to potential clients is highly important aswell. Most programs are distributed as trial or evaluation versions. Nonetheless,weak and vulnerable protection mechanisms may jeopardize the security of your sourcecode and enable competitors or hackers get access to the full functionality of yourapplication, thus stultifying your efforts and time invested into development. Thechoice of the right protection tool that will satisfy your specific needs may beanything but easy. If you are looking for a rock-stable, reliable and elegant codeprotection solution, make sure not to miss  Spices.Fortress .
May 16, 2007: 9Rays.Net is glad to announce the release of Spices.Fortress.
Spices.Fortr ess for C# 2.0 is a protection tool (not an obfuscator) for C# 2.0applications.The goal of Spices.Fortress is to protect C# applications from unauthorized use bylimiting the functionality of evaluation or trial versions. Applications protectedby Spices.Fortress work as evaluation versions, but as soon as they are unlockedwith a secure Fortress Key, they start operating as fully functional versions. Itshould be noted that Spices.Fortress does not protect .NET class libraries, but .NETWindows Forms applications only.
Spices.Fortress advantages
- protection of .NET applications, not their obfuscation;- protection of the data needed to run the application, not the code itself;- use of only native (but characteristic of C#) means;- the protected executable is natively compiled by C# (hence no compatibilityproblems);- no external processing of C#-produced protected executables;- the Key is not checked but is used to restore the protected functionality;- each Key contains personal data, therefore each Key may be easily identified.
Overview
Spices. Fortress does not in any way obfuscate, but protects .NET applications.
When protecting applications, Spices.Fortress uses only native C# means, i.e. noexternal processing of C#-produced executables takes place. It is important that itis not the code, but the data needed to run the application is protected. In .NETWindows Forms applications data is a link between events and event handlers. Thedifference between the trial and the registered versions is based on the use ofdifferent event handlers for trial and registered versions of the protectedapplication. The trial version uses one set of event handlers, whereas theregistered version uses another one.
Spices.Fortress protects the forms of C# projects on the source level, which meansthat Spices.Fortress temporarily modifies the source code and then, afterrecompilation, the application is protected.
When applied, Spices.Fortress modifies the source code of the form in such a mannerthat after re-compiling each event protected by Spices.Fortress has no event handlerassigned. When a protected application is started, the trial event handlers areassigned to corresponding events. If a valid Fortress Key is found, registered eventhandlers replace the trial ones. The protected application does not use any checkingroutines to choose which set of event handlers to use. Instead, it uses the datacontained in the Fortress Resource and the Fortress Key to assign registered eventhandlers to corresponding events. To be protected by Spices.Fortress, a C# form mustcontain components that have events with assigned event handlers.The personal data stored in each Fortress Key allows to easily identify each validFortress Key.
In a nutshell, Spices.Fortress is an elegant, intuitive and affordable solution fordevelopers seeking a better way to protect their products from unwanted intrusionand willing to have a simple, yet efficient mechanism of limiting the functionalityof trial and evaluation versions of their software.
Future versions of Spices.Fortress will also support VB.NET projects.
Pricing and Availability
Spices.Fortress supports Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, MicrosoftWindows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Vista and costs $292.95. Furtherinformation on Spices.Fortress, FAQÂ's, as well as its free downloadable trialversion is available from: http://www.9rays.net/products/ Spices.Fortress/
About 9Rays.Net
9Rays.Net consists of several groups of developers working together on several linesof products and committed to 100% customer satisfaction and top product quality.Established in 2001, the company specializes in developing applications and toolsfor individuals, small and medium businesses using Microsoft .NET, Borland Delphi,C++ Builder, ActiveX and a number of related technologies. Since its foundation,9Rays.Net has been working on improving its main products, providing technicalsupport to customers that have chosen 9Rays.Net products, and developing new trendsin the area of creating stable, reliable and truly efficient applications for a widerange of popular platforms.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: Please, let us know if you have questions or would like anyadditional information on 9Rays.Net products. Contact Oleg Subachev atfortress@9rays.net to get more information. Full functional versions of the productsare available upon request to all editors considering a review.
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