[casual_games] Current advice on SWF encryption?

[Matthew Ford]

Hello all-been on the list for years and I think this may be my 4th post as
I am mostly an absorber of advice, not an emitter yet. I am an indie
developer, ex-game-industry designer and producer. See more at
http://www.digitalcream.com.au/blog/ , http://twitter.com/MatthewMFord, etc.

 

I am very soon going to be opening up private alpha testing of my Flash
game, Taboo Snaps, and it's time to look at SWF encryption. I had heard on
this list that www.amayeta.com was good but elsewhere I read that it has
been cracked. So I'd appreciate any advice on the current best encryption
software and advice for keeping it hard to crack.

 

I am currently sitelocking the game (swf checks it own loaderInfo.url and
dies if it's not my home domain) but eventually I will want the swf to be
spread far and wide-it has imbedded ads and will revert to a demo mode if
not on a blessed domain. So though sitelocking is some protection, of course
if it is decrypted that sitelock can be taken out.

 

I also have the game load XML files from my home domain and do sitelocking
for that with my crossdomain.xml, but again, it can be got around once
decrypted.

 

Please catch me up on the latest greatest advice on encryption software and
techniques, and of course let me know if any of the above is nonsensical!

 

Kind regards,

Matthew Ford

Matthew at fordfam dot com

http://www.digitalcream.com.au/blog/

http://twitter.com/DCgames

http://twitter.com/MatthewMFord

http://www.fordfam.com/matthew 

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