Obfuscator for Python?
Cliff Wells
logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 12 18:28:34 EST 2001
On Monday 12 November 2001 15:03, Amitabh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to know if there are any products which obfuscate the python
> byte code so that it cant be reverse engineered easily?
>
Somehow, I doubt obfuscating the byte code would be a good idea...
If you are really concerned about this, you could encrypt your modules and
write a custom import routine. Obviously, you can't encrypt the encryption
routine, so the only way to make it somewhat difficult would be to have the
decryption routine either as a C module or modify the Python interpreter to
use it. But really, none of these things will prevent a determined person
from obtaining the byte-code (binaries can be reverse-engineered as well).
BTW, this is what copyrights are for.
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Cliff Wells
Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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