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

bruno at modulix onurb at xiludom.gro
Wed Apr 19 13:04:09 EDT 2006


Ben Sizer wrote:
> 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.

Lol !-)

Ok, granted. Let's rephrase it:
"do you really think that native code is harder *enough* to
reverse-engineer ?"

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
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p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"



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