Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-04 Thread Chris W
Harry Sufehmi wrote: Hi, my company's looking to buy a PHP encoder to secure the source code. The encoded scripts should be able to run on Solaris platform (Apache webserver), and should only require minimum changes to the server. I looked on Zend Encoder and was ready to suggest it when I realis

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-04 Thread Adrian Teasdale
Chris, quite a few people sell their scripts online or they may wish to install legacy code that they have sweated over for years onto a clients machine - encoding them helps for piece of mind :) Ade > > > I'm sorry I can't help you but I am curious as to what the > point of this > is. If you

Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 04/02/2004 at 09:35 Chris W wrote: >>Hi, my company's looking to buy a PHP encoder to secure the source code. >>The encoded scripts should be able to run on Solaris platform (Apache >webserver), and should only require minimum changes to the server. >> >I'm sorry I can't help you but I am curiou

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
Hi Larry, many thanks for the recommendation. That will be just perfect. I've informed my manager about it, and I imagine he'd be happy for the fact that we'll be saving quite a lot of money as well. Also thanks for the other recommendations - but unfortunately, we need Solaris compatibility no

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: <...SNIP...> > As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script > is now becoming the weak point since it'll store the > encryption key needed to decrypt the content. I hope you don't mean that literally. If you're really being securit

Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Andrei Reinus
So double-encoding it (using a PHP encoder) will make life finally very hard for said cracker. No its not ... if I would badly need to get this encrypted page and have access to files ... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 05/02/2004 at 11:48 Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: >On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: >> As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script >> is now becoming the weak point since it'll store the >> encryption key needed to decrypt the content. > >I hope you don't m

Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 05/02/2004 at 14:07 Andrei Reinus wrote: >> So double-encoding it (using a PHP encoder) will make life finally very >hard for said cracker. > >No its not ... >if I would badly need to get this encrypted page and have access to files ... So there's a reasonably easy way to decrypt those encoded

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 05 February 2004 13:10, Harry Sufehmi wrote: > On 05/02/2004 at 11:48 Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: > > On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: > > > As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script > > > is now becoming the weak point since it'll store the > > > encr

RE: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 05/02/2004 at 13:17 Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: >On 05 February 2004 13:10, Harry Sufehmi wrote: >> On 05/02/2004 at 11:48 Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote: >> > On 05 February 2004 11:30, Harry Sufehmi wrote: >> > > As you can see, the content will be secured, but the script >> >

Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Bregenzer
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 08:13, Harry Sufehmi wrote: > So there's a reasonably easy way to decrypt those encoded files then ? (despite > those vendors' claim...) There isn't a program to revert encoded files to their original state, but there is a disassembler[1]. However, assuming your encryption

Re: [PHP] Recommendation on PHP encoder please

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Sufehmi
On 05/02/2004 at 10:46 Adam Bregenzer wrote: >On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 08:13, Harry Sufehmi wrote: >> So there's a reasonably easy way to decrypt those encoded files then ? >(despite those vendors' claim...) >There isn't a program to revert encoded files to their original state, >but there is a disass