OK, first I have to weigh in on Ray's side. He's one of the few people at MM
that I still trust and he's a community member first and foremost. When he's
talking about the decryptor, he's not sprouting MM dogma but speaking his
own feelings which happen to be my own.
Decrypting CF templates is a very tricky and dangerous operation. This is
not from a technical standpoint but from a social and licensing one.
Licensing wise you're not allowed to do so. If you do it in the privacy of
your own home and no one knows than it's one thing but doing it publicly is
another. This goes even more so for the social aspect. If people know you
have a decryptor then they'll start to wonder if you're stealing their code.
They start to get upset that CF only used DES for its encryption rather than
something stronger. They start to wonder who else is looking at their code.
They start to not post to the tag gallery, not to try and sell their code
and basically a small part of the community dies.
Then we have arguments about it again and again (and again) which have no
point but to make people upset. We already know that neo will allow code to
compile into servlets so there's no need for encryption. We already know
that stronger encryption would hurt CF in speed and in its ability to be
sold over seas. We already know that there are third party encryption
packages that add onto CF for those who want it. We also know that this
topic has gotten way off topic for CF-Talk.
For that last reason I'm moving this over to CF-Community and would
appreciate it if others would respect that move and talk about it there.
Also, please respect your fellow CF programmers. We're all here for the
language and each other. If we're not, then why are we here at all.
Michael Dinowitz
List Admin
Not MM affiliated and actually upsetting them on many occasions.
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