obviscating python code for distribution

[Hans Georg Schaathun]

On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:42:40 +0100, Rhodri James
  <rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:  ...which is, of course, not exactly secure either.  A sufficiently  
:  determined hacker won't have much trouble disassembling a shared library  
:  even if you do strip out all the debug information.  By chance I'm having  
:  to do something closely related to this at work just at the moment; it's  
:  hard, but far from impossible.

But then, nothing is secure in any absolute sense.  The best you can
do with all your security efforts is to manage risk.  Since obfuscation
increases the cost of mounting an attack, it also reduces risk,
and thereby provides some level of security.

Obviously, if your threat sources are dedicated hackers or maybe MI5,
there is no point bothering with obfuscation, but if your threat source
is script kiddies, then it might be quite effective.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg