On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 04:18:08PM -0700, Peter Janett wrote :
> Just a quick answer to your question, regarding Cold Fusion. It does come
> with a way to "encrypt" the files. So, just like PHP, you still have your
> text based scripts, but you can encrypt them, so that the source code can
> only be seen by Cold Fusion, which un-encrypts it, then runs it.
>
> The down side is the encryption was cracked, so encrypted code really isn't
> protected. In fact, there were several tags that were not publicized, and
> were only used in the "Cold Fusion Administrator". Once the encryption was
> cracked, the makers of Cold Fusion had to add the ability to disable the
> hidden tags, as the administrator itself had been decrypted.
>
> I share the concern with protecting code. I use the "obfuscating" process
> to try to protect some of my Perl scripts. The concept would probably work
> in a PHP setting. The concept is to remove all the comments and unnecessary
> white space, while also turning all variables into non descriptive names.
> This means that PHP can still read it, but it's very difficult for people to
> interpret. Of course, that would only make code tougher to steal.
I don't know what the fuzz is all about. It's as easy as
writing an php extension to hack into the language scanner
and do exactly what you want. I get the impression that there
is not the demand to do (or, the people who know how to do it
don't feel it's that important; including me ;).
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