View the short screencast above gives an overview of what Library Keys are and how they are used and setup in Nitro-LM.

After the firestorm of web traffic we got from the previous post on How to Hack an AIR App SWF, I thought I’d pass this link on to our readers. David Wolever has done a bit of SWC file hacking to modify a private method to make it protected.
Even though this hack is an [...]

Disclaimer – Simplified Logic respects intellectual property rights and in no way supports using hacked or cracked software. What follows is simply an educational exercise with the intent of highlighting the security dangers of releasing unprotected software in virtual machine environments such as the Adobe Flash Player.
It’s fairly common for me to see comments [...]

The Online Flex Meetup Group is Organized by John Mason out of Atlanta, GA. His group attracts attendees from all over the USA and the World. We received an Invitation to present to this group on June 10, 2009. The event was recorded and also covered some material that was also presented [...]

I recently had an opportunity to present Nitro-LM to the Atlanta flash user group on the topic of DRM and the Flash Platform. The slides are attached (you’ll have to rotate them in Adobe Reader, for some reason, sliderocket didn’t print them out right-side up) along with the recording of the webex meeting.

Ok this is more than a bit unusual. According to the support documentation at Apple, the latest version of iWork ‘09 does not come with any serial numbers when purchased in store.
Hmmm… Why would Apple do this?

In designing the new interface for Nitro-LM Administrator, I’ve had the pleasure of designing the new Report Builder interface. In the current production version of this tool, we have a handful of reports that licensees and customers can use to see various aspects of usage data.

We never thought we would ever see this in a licensed commercial software product, but here it is…

In part two, we cover using the Asset Encrypter to encrypt AIR module swfs. This demo also contains a before and after look at the code using a decompiler.
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In this two-part article, I’m going to run through a quick demo of how to protect the source code in an AIR app from decompilers using the Nitro-LM module encryption technique. Nitro-LM is a hosted licensing solution that can be enabled in your flex/AIR app for a nominal fee per license.