{"id":2232,"date":"2019-01-22T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:28:40","slug":"vb-net-simple-string-obfuscator-scrambler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/vb-net-simple-string-obfuscator-scrambler\/","title":{"rendered":"VB.NET SIMPLE STRING OBFUSCATOR SCRAMBLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made a small program that will help you hide and make harder to modify strings inside code. The idea was borrowed from the following project Small String Obfuscator which is for C++ only. However I am using VB.NET thus I had to write a new string obfuscator for VB.NET. The idea of the obfuscator is the following:<\/p>\n

Sometimes you place strings in your project like this following \u201cVB.NET STRING SCRAMBLER \/www.blog.exrockets.com\/\u201d<\/p>\n

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Which would appear somewhere on your application or during certain action as shown here<\/p>\n

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Now if you open the application file in a HEX editor you can easily identify the string in question<\/p>\n

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And then you can modify it to something else<\/p>\n

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Which would appear modified in the new file, something that we wouldn\u2019t like to happen.<\/p>\n

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How does the VB.NET SIMPLE STRING OBFUSCATOR SCRAMBLER work is like this:<\/p>\n

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-enter the string that you would like to scramble in the first window
\n-VARIABLE1 contains the array of individual scrambled characters of the string
\n-VARIABLE2 contains the final string recovered from the array of scrambled characters
\n-DUMMY VARIABLE contains random text strings for additional confusion<\/p>\n

When you press the \u201cSCRAMBLE\u201d button the string is broken into characters. Each character is converted to ASCII code to which a random number is added. Then the character is expressed as the difference between the former and the random number. Then between each two consecutive characters a random string with random length is written which has no purpose other than confusion. Finally the scrambled characters are assembled in a third variable which will contain the initial string.<\/p>\n

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Now when you open the application file with a HEX editor, the text string will look like some other code and it would be difficult to identify and modify.<\/p>\n

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DOWNLOAD String_Scrambler.exe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made a small program that will help you hide and make harder to modify strings inside code. The idea was borrowed from the following project Small String Obfuscator which is for C++ only. However I am using VB.NET thus I had to write a new string obfuscator for VB.NET. The idea of the obfuscator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38,36,35,37,34,39,40],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology","tag-simple-string-obfuscator","tag-string-obfuscator","tag-vb-net","tag-vb-net-simple-string-obfuscator","tag-vb-net-simple-string-obfuscator-scrambler","tag-vb-net-simple-string-scrambler","tag-vb-net-string-scrambler","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.exrockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}