i wonder what's the most expensive piece of software ever pirated Cadence Virtuoso, an ASIC design tool, is reporteldy $1M USD per person per year https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5517341 …
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Replying to @whitequark
It /can/ be, it's usually more like 250k base, and then you add Features™, and they do a lot of Volume licensing. Intel pays 20 mill a year for their unlimited site license. Also prolly don't link to that torrent, it's sketchy as hell.
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Replying to @hedgeberg @whitequark
When it was first leaked there was speculation that it was an attempt by NSA to get terror groups to install RATs on machines. Cadence doesn't let people install virtuoso on personal machines, and the encryption is un-fucking-real, so noone has a valid release to compare against.
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Replying to @hedgeberg @whitequark
> un-fucking-real Really? My universal experience is that the higher-end/more niche a product, the more hilariously shitty the security is. Games and video DRM usually have better security. And at least the Cadence crypto they use in FPGA stuff is hilariously trivial.
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Let me guess FlexLM lel
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Oh I was thinking the RTL encryption. Which is just RSA and Blowfish. And at least a certain FPGA vendor just has the private key embedded in the Verilog compiler, highly secured with XOR™.
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"XOR crypto: it must be safe because it doesn't look the same!"
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To be fair, it frustrated my first approach, which was "just take every appropriately sized byte range of the binary and see if it happens to be a divisor of the modulus". I had to actually open IDA!
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The sheer horror of actually needing to reverse things. You poor, poor soul.
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