How protect proprietary Python code? (bytecode obfuscation?, what better?)

Ben Sizer kylotan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 08:39:59 EDT 2006


bruno at modulix wrote:
> seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> > I suppose another idea is to rewrite entire Python app in C if compiled
> > C code
> > is harder to decompile.
>
> Do you really think "native" code is harder to reverse-engineer than
> Python's byte-code ?

Yes, until there's a native code equivalent of "import dis" that
telepathically contacts the original programmer to obtain variable
names that aren't in the executable.

-- 
Ben Sizer




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