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nativeit 3 days ago

How expensive is it to run these archives through a zipping software with encryption as part of the mirroring process? I don't have any real context to know how large these file archives are...

estimator7292 3 days ago | parent [-]

A password protected zip file is just as suspicious to AVs as the original rom

cantrevealname 3 days ago | parent [-]

In that case, how about using extremely trivial encryption (eg., XOR every byte with 0x3B) and on the website give a one-line perl command to decrypt. Now it's random data and not a known format (like a password-protected zip file).

Of course, any AV company could add a rule to their signature checking to undo the XOR if they were targeting the romhack.ing site, but it sounds like they aren't being targeted but just getting caught up in the dragnet.

bdhcuidbebe 3 days ago | parent [-]

No av company is detecting roms. They aint pc executables