PEncrypt

Adding supplemental security measures when creating new programs in order to make it very difficult for anyone to get their hands on the code is very important. It is also a task that can be quite complex and difficult to carry out, unless a set of appropriate tools are available.

There is a good number of encryption utilities which can be used by developers and among them one can try PEncrypt. This is a very small application that aims to make Portable Executables (PE) more secure with minimal efforts.

An important advantage of this tool is the fact that it doesn't have to be installed, so it can be deployed from any storage device the user decides to carry it on and it will still work properly. The minimalistic interface is bent on practicality, so PEncrypt will get the job done without too much efforts.

The selection of the target file is pretty straightforward and there is also a neat feature that makes it possible to create a backup of the executable chosen for processing before the actual encryption takes place.

Before proceeding to the encoding part, users might want to take a look inside the 'Options' area and choose the protection methods hat will be applied. Most of those features are available for older versions of Windows, so users can try on more modern iterations of Microsoft's proprietary operating system the options which are not marked '9x/ME Only'.

Thus, PEncrypt enables users to input the desired number of encryptor layers, activate camouflage jump to decryptor, anti application level debuggers, as well as use polymorphic encryptors. The settings created for the older OS editions include anti-dump, anti-SICE and kill debug regs, anti-ICEdump's/TRACEX and also destroy PE header.