Attacking the cipher

Not too long ago we dedicated a blog post to removing executable password protections. In that post we said that we will eventually return to this topic to deal with much harder opponent. Well today is that day. This time we take a look at executable password protection named PEPasswordEncryptor

Removing executable password protection

With the next TitanEngine release just around the corner we decided to do a light an interesting analysis of a simple executable password protection. Today's focus is on LCCrypto a simple example which will show us the general security and vulnerabilities of such and similar tools.