after trying UPX on my win32 standalone executable i got a upx: UMP.exe: NotCompressibleException :)
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Tom Glod <t...@makeshyft.com> wrote: > great suggestion Lagi... thats a great solution for anyone who needs an > extra layer of obfuscation on the binaries. > > Yes indeed...the .livecode files must be made available. > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> The code doesn't need to be available "in the clear" either in Community >> or >> Business in the executable. >> So there is nothing stopping us using something like >> >> https://www.pelock.com/products/pelock/buy >> >> or a free one here >> https://upx.github.io/ >> http://www.pazera-software.com/products/free-upx/ >> >> You must make the source files available though. You cant see the C or C++ >> source text in programs written in those languages except for say headers >> and library calls and there are programs that can go through and obfuscate >> those as well. >> >> Lagi >> >> >> >> >> On 6 June 2018 at 17:12, Brian Milby via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> > Can’t do that with community... code must be available. >> > On Jun 6, 2018, 11:09 AM -0500, Tom Glod via use-livecode < >> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: >> > > what if for example you want to hard code a hash salt into your >> > code?..... >> > > if the code is readable, then so is the salt. I would vote for >> unreadable >> > > code 100% of the time. >> > > >> > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < >> > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > > For commercial I would think so, but don’t see any issue on the >> > community >> > > > side. >> > > > On Jun 6, 2018, 9:34 AM -0500, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < >> > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: >> > > > > Don't we want that NOT to be possible?? Otherwise bring back the >> > runtime >> > > > engine and run the app as a stack file of the runtime. >> > > > > >> > > > > Bob S >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > On Jun 5, 2018, at 19:37 , Brian Milby via use-livecode < >> > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> > > > > > >> > > > > > Looking at the code, “deflate” is called on the stack as it is >> > being >> > > > written out (zlib). So while not easy, it should be possible to >> > separate a >> > > > stack file from the binary if deployed from the community edition. >> It >> > would >> > > > take a bit of work to figure out where the file started and ended. >> Well >> > > > over what I would be willing to tackle at the moment. For anyone so >> > > > motivated, the relevant source code is in deploy*.cpp (along with >> the >> > > > header files). >> > > > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > > use-livecode mailing list >> > > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > > > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> > > > subscription preferences: >> > > > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > use-livecode mailing list >> > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> > > > subscription preferences: >> > > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > use-livecode mailing list >> > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> > subscription preferences: >> > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ >> > use-livecode mailing list >> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> > subscription preferences: >> > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
