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Re: EDD Plus Project

sicklittlemonkey wrote:

On Jan 14, 3:43 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:


However, from a practical point of view, it may make more sense to
preserve the programs in both forms--a (faithfully) deprotected form
and a protected form for good exemplars of each type of protection
(which would be many fewer than the number of programs).



<more good points snipped>

I agree, of course. But when someone sends me a NIB to crack, it's
usually a case of finding out what the NIB didn't capture. If there's
an alternative, like the one Henry is offering in this thread, should
we not explore it?


It certainly wouldn't be hard to improve on the .nib format's
completeness.

I only suggest that the community cannot hope to support more than
one new alternative, so it's worth getting it right, and not settling
for a 97% solution.  (After all .nib is a 90% solution.  ;-)

-michael

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