Protecting an Application's Unauthorized Copy

Manish K. Agarwal

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To protect your application's unauthorized copy by using image integrity functions (Platform SDK's ImageHlp APIs) and to manage certificates in a portable executable (PE) image file.

CertMgr-CS-Sample.zip
- CertMgr
  - CertMgr
  - SampleCSApp.sln
  - SampleCSApp
    - app.config
    - Form1.cs
    - Form1.Designer.cs
    - Program.cs
    - Properties
    - SampleCSApp.csproj
  - SampleEmptyDLL
MyApp.zip
- MyApp
  - CertificateMgr.cpp
  - CertificateMgr.h
  - MyApp.cpp
  - MyApp.vcproj
  - ReadMe.txt
  - Sample.dll
  - stdafx.cpp
  - stdafx.h
MyApp-noexe.zip
- CertificateMgr.cpp
- CertificateMgr.h
- MyApp.cpp
- MyApp.vcproj
- ReadMe.txt
- stdafx.cpp
- stdafx.h
CertificateMgr.zip
- CertificateMgr.cpp
- CertificateMgr.h

// stdafx.cpp : source file that includes just the standard includes
// CertMgr.pch will be the pre-compiled header
// stdafx.obj will contain the pre-compiled type information

#include "stdafx.h"

// TODO: reference any additional headers you need in STDAFX.H
// and not in this file

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Manish K. Agarwal

Software Developer (Senior) Oracle

India

Working with Oracle. Using C/C++, VC++, MFC, STL, C#, Java etc. on various platform like Windows, Unix, Macintosh etc. from last 13+ years to convert various type of requirements into running software components. My core expertise is multithreaded desktop product and large scale enterprises software development.

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