Acknowledgements

Last updated August 7th, 2026

Ex-Guard gratefully acknowledges the help and support of the following people and projects. This product would not exist without them.

Open Source Software

• CodeIgniter 4 — portal & activation server framework (codeigniter.com).
• exAuth — authentication, RBAC & JWT library (github.com/exceed/exauth).
• OpenSSL — AES-256-GCM encryption for encoded files & licenses.
• PHP & Zend Engine — the platform we protect.
• PySide6 / Qt — desktop GUI (qt.io).
• Nuitka — Python compiler for the desktop & CLI binaries.
• Bootstrap, jQuery, DataTables & SweetAlert2 — web UI components.
• Hermawan/CodeIgniter4-DataTables — server-side tables for the admin panel.

Security Researchers

We thank the security research community for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities. If you have discovered a security issue in Ex-Guard, please contact us privately at security@ex-guard.id before disclosing it publicly.

And You

Finally, thank you for trusting Ex-Guard with your source code. Every license purchased supports ongoing development and security research.