A litle off topic but the zipfile doc says: "Decryption is extremely slow as it is implemented in native python rather than C".
Why is this limitation there? I mean, is there any specific reason for not implementing it in C? On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > OMG, the use case is actually running a script without giving the user > > access to the script's source? Agreed that's a big -1. > > > > I thought it was just for running a zip containing code so secret you > > don't want to leave it around on your hard drive without encryption > > (say, the program you use to compute your employee's bonuses, or > > perhaps a patented algoritm for detecting spam). That use case would > > make a small amount of sense, though I personally don't care enough to > > write the code to support it. > > Actually, the issue posting doesn't say either way - it doesn't provide > any real use cases at all. > > For local protection of confidential information there are already much > better solutions out there (e.g. whole disk encryption, OS file > permissions, OS folder encryption), so a poor-man's DRM was the only > remaining remotely plausible use case I could see (and that's a bad idea > for all the reasons that DRM is almost always a bad idea). > > Now, that could just be a failure of imagination on my part, but genuine > use case suggestions for the feature have been non existent so far. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/shashank.sunny.singh%40gmail.com > -- Regards Shashank Singh Senior Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay shashank.sunny.si...@gmail.com http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~shashanksingh
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