Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Scott Mead > wrote: >> As with many different types of security (i.e. the 3 foot high fence) this >> is really just a deterrent to most people who either aren't capable of >> reverse engineering or are just not i

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Greg Stark
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Scott Mead wrote: > As with many different types of security (i.e. the 3 foot high fence) this > is really just a deterrent to most people who either aren't capable of > reverse engineering or are just not interested in the first place. Someone I know used to work

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
Jasen Betts schrieb: I've wrote a PLPGSQL stored procedure for a DB I've to delivery to my customer. The problem is that I want to hide the code of the stored procedure. I don't want that my customer is able to read the code of the my sp. Do exist a way to mask the code of the store procedure s

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Scott Mead
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Scott Mead > wrote: > >> >>It is important to note (as many people have already pointed out) that >> both EnterpriseDB and Oracle's wrap functionality is declared as a 100% >> guarantee that nobody can

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Scott Mead
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Scott Mead > wrote: > >> >>It is important to note (as many people have already pointed out) that >> both EnterpriseDB and Oracle's wrap functionality is declared as a 100% >> guarantee that nobody can

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Scott Mead wrote: > >It is important to note (as many people have already pointed out) that > both EnterpriseDB and Oracle's wrap functionality is declared as a 100% > guarantee that nobody can read your code. As with many different types of > security (i.e. t

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Scott Mead
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM, wrote: > > > I completely agree w/ HArald. Its not something we'd want to see in an open > source product. That said, I saw yesterday that the latest version of > EnterpriseDB has this feature. So if you want to protect your own IP, then > you've got to purchase

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-29 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-06-26, luca.cicirie...@email.it wrote: > I've wrote a PLPGSQL stored procedure for a DB I've to delivery to my > customer. The problem is that I want to hide the code of the stored > procedure. I don't want that my customer is able to read the code of the my > sp. > > Do exist a way to mas

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:37 PM, wrote: > > Obfuscated function source code (not wanted) Obfuscating function source > code has minimal protective benefits because anyone with super-user access > can find a way to view the code. At the same time, it would greatly > complicate backups and other adm

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Le 26 juin 09 à 10:56, luca.cicirie...@email.it a écrit : Do exist a way to mask the code of the store procedure shipped with my DB? There's a way to do it which is not intended to cover this need: write the procedure code in C, and only ship the .so and .sql, not the .c code. You'll

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread artacus
Obfuscated function source code (not wanted) Obfuscating function source code has minimal protective benefits because anyone with super-user access can find a way to view the code. At the same time, it would greatly complicate backups and other administrative tasks. To prevent non-super-users f

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread David Fetter
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:56:34AM +0200, luca.cicirie...@email.it wrote: > I've wrote a PLPGSQL stored procedure for a DB I've to delivery to > my customer. The problem is that I want to hide the code of the > stored procedure. I don't want that my customer is able to read the > code of the my sp.

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Luca, in addition to this: that feature is on the "Features We Do *Not* Want " list of the http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo list: Obfuscated function source code (not wanted) Obfuscating function source code has minimal protective benefits because anyone with super-user access can find a way

Re: [GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
hello 2009/6/26 : > I've wrote a PLPGSQL stored procedure for a DB I've to delivery to my > customer. The problem is that I want to hide the code of the stored > procedure. I don't want that my customer is able to read the code of the my > sp. > > Do exist a way to mask the code of the store proc

[GENERAL] masking the code

2009-06-26 Thread luca . ciciriello
I've wrote a PLPGSQL stored procedure for a DB I've to delivery to my customer. The problem is that I want to hide the code of the stored procedure. I don't want that my customer is able to read the code of the my sp. Do exist a way to mask the code of the store procedure shipped with my DB? Than