Robert4049 10 Posted January 12, 2014 My dev team has created several models and we are a small community wanting to grow but we cant because the larger community's download our content and apply it to their server before we ever make a case for anyone to move over. We have put a password on our addonsync and we have locked everything down but they still have people sneak in and steal the content. Is there any software available for purchase that we can use to encrypt and then deploy? We did look at Software Shield and their Professional edition but they don't support encrypting pbo's. I would also want it to be known we are not charging anyone. We just want to be original but how can we be original if our competitors are stealing our content? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikero 79 Posted January 12, 2014 Specific variants of the engine, notably the vbs family provide levels of sha encryption to either the header, the files themselves, or both. but to implement that, you need to be running an engine that accepts them (and generate suitable keys). None of this is available to arma/ofp. In short, you're out of luck. My tools do allow a level of obfuscation in that certain file types can be (optionally) compressed rendering them meaningless to common garden pbo extractors. You can also obfuscate the header of the pbo to give little or no indication of what each file actually is. My extractors will descramble this, but I've never implemented a tool to create them because wholesale theft of models and data is rare. There is on the other hand a very large and thriving community which will, indeed, take your model and modify it to suit their needs, notably rebadging it with different (not necessarily better) textures, to make it an Australian Tank, or a Mongolian air force helicopter. so check carefully, what it is you're upset about, because the history of the community for the past decade is, it's fair game to take existing stuff and learn from it. When you think about it, simply plunking YOUR models in some other pbo is totally pointless. If that's your concern, forget it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
