Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, M?rcio A. Sepp wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/or wrap my source code? If you have code that you don't want people

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-11 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:59:44AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, M?rcio A. Sepp wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-11 Thread Josh Berkus
David, That some larger organizations choose to use the known-unsafe method of security by obscurity is not a reason for anybody here to expend any effort helping them persist in this illusion: quite the opposite, in fact. Larger organizations are likely to have security needs which they

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-11 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: David, That some larger organizations choose to use the known-unsafe method of security by obscurity is not a reason for anybody here to expend any effort helping them persist in this illusion: quite the opposite, in fact.

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:59:44AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: Interesting. Again, this is pretty fragile with respect to, for example, pg_dump(all). No, it isn't. If you revoke permission on pg_proc, /df in psql will fail, as will pg_dump. Try it (you have to revoke all on pg_proc form

[HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-10 Thread Márcio A. Sepp
Hi, I'm looking for a way to hidethe souce code of mysystem (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/orwrap my source code? Att.Márcio A. SeppZYON TECNOLOGIA LTDA

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, Márcio A. Sepp wrote: I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/or wrap my source code? Write the functions in C and distribute only a binary?

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-10 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Márcio A. Sepp wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/or wrap my source code? Att. Márcio A. Sepp ZYON TECNOLOGIA LTDA Currently there is no way to do that.

Re: [HACKERS] Hide source code

2005-07-10 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:26:26AM -0300, M?rcio A. Sepp wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to hide the souce code of my system (functions). In Oracle, I can wrap it. Is there something that I can use to hide and/or wrap my source code? If you have code that you don't want people to