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

[Tim Delaney]

On 20 January 2011 06:16, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 2011-01-19, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> And they somehow usually end up being an annoyance to customers who
> are not trying to reverse engineer your code but are merely trying to
> use it legally.


Absolutely.

If you feel you absolutely *must* obfuscate your object code more than the
python bytecode, just put it all into a separate module and compile it with
Cython <http://cython.org/>. Then you end up with machine-specific object
code which is somewhat harder to reverse engineer for most people (but quite
a few people are experts at doing so).

As a bonus, Cython might speed it up too.

Tim Delaney
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