More thoughts...
1. Remove all line feeds from the code so that the script is one long line.
2. Create a user.r file that renames all native 'words to gobbledygook.
3. Run a REBOL program against your script which replaces all native 'words
with the substitutions from the user.r file.
4. Run a REBOL program against your script which replaces all the rest of the
'words with gobbledygook.
Now you should have one long line of code that looks more like a base64 file
attachment than a script, but it will run just fine.
I'm sure there are more steps one could take to make it at least difficult
for others to want to steal your code.
-Ryan
>Although it is not "secure," I have thought about a way to make it
difficult,
>at least, for others to understand your code.
>
>Using a text editor, use search and replace to change the 'words so that
they
>are hard to understand when you read them. For example, change...
>
>news-server: input
>open-server: reform [rejoin ["np: open news://" news-server]]
>do open-server
>
>to...
>
>Xz8hUjKLmhT89||hg~: input
>Yn876asdfGXzeyg|adlfj: reform [rejoin ["POxj724xcUYxq|x|y|q7: open news://"
>Xz8hUjKLmhT89||hg~]]
>do Yn876asdfGXzeyg|adlfj
>
>Of course, keep a copy of the "readable" code for yourself, but distribute
>the gobbledygook to everyone else.
>
>Hey, maybe someone could write up a code-replacement script for this? Then
>run the script on the script itself. Hmm...
>
>-Ryan
>
>>Hi,
>>New to scripting languages as a major tool, here. So
>>my question is what are the general views about the
>>security and protection (against copying) of code in
>>Rebol. How do you make money with something which is
>>seen in source form so easily? I guess its OK with CGI
>>scripts where its all happening at your end and may be
>>combining with a lot of other technology, but
>>applications like data mining look so much more
>>vulnerable???
>>Vivek
>>
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