Xoanon-timelock

A debugging session on an old protection scheme

(by xoanon / pinnacle)

This short article is a study on an old protection scheme called TimeLock DLL.

Word to Xoanon :
"The DLL i will talk about is a DLL frequently used to protect commercial programs distributed on the web. This DLL provide a time limit protection: after xx days your program will not run anymore without purchasing."

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