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 ;). -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]