A company I work with is about to begin electronic delivery of purchased programs, and wishes to have some protection against copying.
Rather than attempting to prevent copying (active protection), a watermarking scheme has been implemented, where each user gets a custom-compiled version of the program, which gets built into the program.
As it is, the watermark can be removed without too much difficulty by simply obtaining two copies, and I need to provide a greater level of protection.
There is a tool, known as "Morphine", which is designed for the primary purpose of evading antivirus detection. This is accomplished by randomizing and encrypting the executable, and avoiding constant strings which can be attacked. This would work well for my purposes as well.
Morphine is available under the GPL, at <[login to view URL]>
I need a quick port to Linux, allowing morphine to be ran from the Linux command line (while still processing a windows .exe) Feel free to use the MinGW win32 api implementation ( <[login to view URL]> ) in the port. It's not too difficult; I'd do it myself if I had the time.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased, with the exception of third-party code used under a GPL/LGPL/mingw license).
## Platform
Linux (glibc 2.3, x86), preferably as either an autoconf/automake package, or a C/C++ file that can be simply compiled under gcc.