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Selling my decoder!
When maintaining long-standing PHP applications, teams often encounter a serious challenge: critical components encoded or protected years ago, with no accessible source code remaining. This makes modernization, security auditing, and migration nearly impossible. To solve this, I built a C#-based PHP code-recovery and analysis toolkit designed exclusively for: Restoring your own legacy applications Auditing and…
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How ioncube license protection works
ionCube-protected PHP files can be linked to a license file that enforces various restrictions on how and where the script can be used. These license files are a critical component for developers who distribute the same protected code to multiple users while maintaining control over its usage. Common License Restrictions A license file can impose…
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Decompile sourceguardian PHP files
This tool is very similar to ioncube tool. It uses the same protection method (converting source code into bytecode and protecting it with obfuscation). Decoding procedures are similar to ioncube tool. Both protections, sourceguardian (sg) and ioncube (ic), compile the source code for different PHP versions. sg saves all compiled versions inside the unique obfuscated…