Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-06 Thread Adam DePrince
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 08:19, Philippe Fremy wrote: > Adam DePrince wrote: > > No amount of obfuscation is going to help you. > > Theorically, that's true. Anything obfuscated can be broken, just like > the non obfuscated version. However it takes more skills and time to > break it. And that's th

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-06 Thread Philippe Fremy
Adam DePrince wrote: No amount of obfuscation is going to help you. Theorically, that's true. Anything obfuscated can be broken, just like the non obfuscated version. However it takes more skills and time to break it. And that's the point. By raising the barrier for breaking a product, you just

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-06 Thread Alex Martelli
snacktime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > How difficult is it to turn python bytecode into it's original source? It's pretty easy, not really the original source (you lose comments etc) but close enough to read and understand. > Is it that much different than java (this is what they will pro

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-06 Thread Adam DePrince
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:58, Jarek Zgoda wrote: > snacktime napisał(a): > > > Everything except the libraries that actually connect to the > > bank networks would be open source, and those libraries aren't > > something that you would even want to touch anyways. > > This sounds suspicious to me.

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-04 Thread Gabriel Cooper
snacktime wrote: Also, I'm curious how much demand their is for this application in the Python world. The application replaces online credit card processors(Verisign, Authorizenet) by providing a platform that connects directly to the bank networks for credit card processing, and also provides ot

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-03 Thread snacktime
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:28:50 -0500, Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snacktime wrote: > > How difficult is it to turn python bytecode into it's original source? > > Is it that much different than java (this is what they will probably > > compare it to) ? > > As far as I know, that depen

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-03 Thread Daniel Bickett
snacktime wrote: > How difficult is it to turn python bytecode into it's original source? > Is it that much different than java (this is what they will probably > compare it to) ? As far as I know, that depends on how much money you're willing to pour into it ;) http://www.crazy-compilers.com/de

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
snacktime> How difficult is it to turn python bytecode into it's snacktime> original source? Not very. Google for "python decompyle". Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-03 Thread snacktime
> > > Everything except the libraries that actually connect to the > > bank networks would be open source, and those libraries aren't > > something that you would even want to touch anyways. > > This sounds suspicious to me. Really. Normal payment clearance programs > have open-spec API's. > I

Re: bytecode obfuscation

2005-02-03 Thread Jarek Zgoda
snacktime napisał(a): Everything except the libraries that actually connect to the bank networks would be open source, and those libraries aren't something that you would even want to touch anyways. This sounds suspicious to me. Really. Normal payment clearance programs have open-spec API's. -- J