Just a though. Asking open source related people how to make code more closed is like asking a pagan to interpret a bible :-)))
Anyway, everything can be hacked, reverse engineered or decrypted. The question is how much money are you willing to spend on protecting your information versus the importance of protection of such information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilan Finci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "linux mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: protecting one's IP > Hi, > The company I work with is creating executable code we give to potential > clients to test. > > The code comes as either an executable or a shared library (with a given > API the client use to connect it to his application). > > Is there a way to protect such executable/library, so it will be hard to > do reverse engineering and find out what the algorithms we use? Of > course, we protect ourself with patents, but we would like something in > the level of protecting the code itself. > > Of course it is all done on linux (PPC or x86 version). > > Thanks, > Ilan > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
