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Originally posted by MenthiX
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Originally posted by TheSteve
proprietary undocumented "encrypted"
Just like Microsoft encrypts some of their resources, the thing most hated by the majority of skinners? That would be a step back IMO. In the end it will be reverse engineered anyway, Live Messenger must still be able to read the resources in unencrypted form in memory.
I was shooting more along the lines of an option to obfuscate not an ultimate protection.
To set the record straight, the Microsoft RLE image format used in messenger is not a form of encryption. It is simply a new image format that has features and optimizations that are not available in other image formats. One reason that Microsoft has not released documentation on it is that they reserve the right to chance it at any time as they have done several times in the 8.x betas and again in the 9.0 beta.
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