Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy writes: > On 5/25/2010 9:49 AM, Sandy Ydnas wrote: > > > is it possible to prevent reveres engineering when customer have > > access to executable made from Python code??? > > If there is, it is a trade secrets that you will not be able to > reverse engineer ;-). +1 QOTW -- \

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> is it possible to prevent reveres engineering when customer have access >> to executable made from Python code??? The only secure way of protecting your code is if you expose it as a web service or some such. (Yes, people can still crack your web server, but that's nitpicking :)) Cheers, Danie

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 05:40 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 05/26/10 01:09, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:49 +0500, Sandy Ydnas wrote: > >> Agree, reveres engineering is crucial issuer for programming > >> language > >> but every executable file can be cracked, for example

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-25, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 05:40:43 +1000 > Lie Ryan wrote: > >> That merely gives a false sense of security. If the program is >> decrypted in memory, you can easily make a memory dump to get the >> unencrypted program. If I am a competitor that can make economi

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 26 May 2010 05:40:43 +1000 Lie Ryan wrote: > That merely gives a false sense of security. If the program is decrypted > in memory, you can easily make a memory dump to get the unencrypted > program. If I am a competitor that can make economic advantage by > cracking your secret sauce, it w

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Lie Ryan
On 05/26/10 01:09, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:49 +0500, Sandy Ydnas wrote: >> Agree, reveres engineering is crucial issuer for programming >> language >> but every executable file can be cracked, for example by using >> disassembler!!! >> For each weapon there is anti

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/25/2010 9:49 AM, Sandy Ydnas wrote: is it possible to prevent reveres engineering when customer have access to executable made from Python code??? If there is, it is a trade secrets that you will not be able to reverse engineer ;-). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: to prevent reveres engineering for Python

2010-05-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:49 +0500, Sandy Ydnas wrote: > Agree, reveres engineering is crucial issuer for programming > language > but every executable file can be cracked, for example by using > disassembler!!! > For each weapon there is antiweapon, so > is it possible to prevent reveres engine