[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[geremy condra]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml at behnel.de>
>>
>> Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10:
>>>
>>> aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough?
>>> Can they be easily decompiled?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>
>
> Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the
> bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does for PHP or Filter::Crypto for
> Perl?
>
> Octavian

The iron law of cryptography: there is no cryptographic solution to a
problem in which the attacker and intended recipient are the same
person.

Schemes like this are at most an annoyance to people willing to
reverse engineer your code.

Geremy Condra