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Representatives from 9rays.net Inc and StrongBit Technology today announced anexciting partnership. In order to combat the ever-advancing underworld of crackers,and to meet many developersÂ' requests to both companies, they have come together toform a new innovative product. The goal of creating a flexible, multi-layer,universal software copy protection and licensing system, based on a combination ofencryption and code obfuscation techniques and aimed at prevention and protection. The new product will be able to combat the latest and future software threats withease, including: reverse engineering tricks, cracks and illegal use. Now for thefirst time ever it will be compatible with different programming platforms andenvironments. While the announcement of the partnership just occurred today, theproduct itself has been in development state for quite some time Both projectparticipants are planning to launch the beta-version in the near future.
StrongBit Technology- Specializing in windows applications copy protection andlicensing systems plans to combine their famous protection techniques with 9Rays.netwho currently specializes in .Net software protection and decompilation. Both groupsare finally combining efforts in development of a collaborative, cross-platform, software copy protection and license management solution
Both 9Rays and StrongBit are known by their current anti-cracking tools usingencryption and  protection by obfuscation principles in application protection andlicense management. Until recently these great products were always for differentprogramming platforms or compilers. StrongBit EXECryptor is intended for protectionof 32bit executable files written in Basic, Delphi, and C/C++. Spices.Obfuscatorfrom 9Rays it is oriented to protection of .Net applications.
Based off of in-depth private scientific research in software reverse engineering,analysis, and cracks StrongBit (part of SoftComplete Development) developed aninnovative approach to software protection based on various techniques includingtheir renown code obfuscation method coined  Code MorphingÂ'. Professionals have usedthis technique as a complete solution in software copy protection and licensemanagement. The EXECryptor 2.x series that combines  code morphingÂ' obfuscationwith program code encryption launched two years ago, in July 2004. As a result ofsome of the best protection schemes in the industry, today it has the reputation of uncrackable software protection with an open challenge to crackers. Today it is atthe top of software protection and licensing tools, with one of the longest standinguncrackable records to date.
The 9RaysÂ' Spices.Obfuscator one of Spice.Net suite components is a .Net codeprotection tool that offers the wide range of technologies to protect .Net code andintellectual properties. Spice.Net comes with five components - Obfuscator,Decompiler, Modeler, Investigator and Documenter. Other features of this technologyare automatic size optimization and additional options like assembly merging, addingmanaged resources, self-installation and encryption features. Thus, Spices.Net doesthe entire cycle of assembly processing  obfuscation, optimization, andverification of the generated assemblies, with both a .Net Framework and CompactFramework versions and also a Console version.
About Allies:
1) 9Rays.Net is know for partnering with several groups of developers with eachgroup offering its own unique product line. These high-skilled professionals havejoined their efforts to achieve better marketing results and to provide the bestpossible quality product.
9Rays.Net has gained wide experience on the tools and components market, developinghigh-quality products for the following platforms: Microsoft. NET (Windows.Forms andASP.Net), Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, ActiveX. The company's primary product focusis on development of .Net tools and components compatible with Visual Studio .Net,C# Builder, Delphi.Net and other IDEÂ's for .Net Framework.
2) StrongBit is a SoftComplete Development division specialized in anti-reversal,anti-crack, and anti-piracy software protection private scientific research anddevelopment, creators of the famous EXECryptor Software copy protection and HardKey software license management products. SoftComplete Development specializes in creating software protection & licensemanagement systems, fuzzy text processing and other developer solutions. 9Rays.Nethttp://www.9rays.ne t/StrongBit http://www.strongbit.com
