On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:29:21 -0700, Wesley wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does python has any good obfuscate?
>
> Currently our company wanna release one product developed by python to
> our customer. But dont's wanna others see the py code.
>
> I googled for a while but mostly just say using pyc. Any better one?
>
> Our product is deployed on Linux bed.
>
> Thanks.
> Wesley
As already highlighted obfuscation is probably pointless, what do you
expect it to achieve anyway? i can see a number of reasons all of which
can be proved futile.
1) you want to stop the customer copying the program to other computers:-
obsfucation wont help here they already have the executable file & can
just run it anyway Many copy protection schemes have been tried in the
past none have been sucsesull
2) you don't want the customer to be able to modify your code & pass it
of as their own:-
This is what Copyright is for. Also if they are that poor a programming
shop that they are desperate to steel for your code they probably wont be
in business long anyway.
3) to stop them modifying the code to suit their own requirements:-
What on earth is the problem here, that just makes the software more
valuable to them. As long as they are paying for your software (assuming
it is not freeware) then everyone wins. if they are not paying then it is
another example of Copyright breach.
4) your software is a driver for some exotic piece of hardware & reading
the code will help produce a competing product:-
A reasonable justification but in that case it is probably still worth
the time & effort of fully decompiling the code & reverse engineering the
hardware and the best you will do will be to slow them down
it is my opinion that attempting to obfuscate the code is akin to
Microsoft's improvements to the BSOD in windows 8 (Adding a frowning
emotion) the effort would have been better spent ensuring it wasn't
displayed in the first place.
Concentrate on making the product (even) better rather than trying to
hide the unhideable.
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