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Article #18160Re: Is secret code impossible with VM & Bytecodes?
From: chieng
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:00
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Check out http://www.4thpass.com/SourceGuard It's a GOOD solution for bytecode protection. -Chieng In article <35C18427.1295AF56@btinternet.com>, Cem Redif <c.redif@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > In languages like C++, you could make your code secret, since it's > compiled to a machine code of a specific operating system. However, > with Java, if you compile your program to bytecodes, there are good > decompilers out there, that can reproduce your code in neat format > (without the comments of course). Hence, my question is: what can you > do to make you code secret, so that if your competitors get hold of it > they can't have a peek !? For example, if a company called > AccountSoftware developed a package called AccountWizard in Java. What > stops a competitor company from purchasing AccountWizard and view the > code via a decompiler? > > Any info. would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Djem. > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f74b3,de80117c7920bcef X-Google-Attributes: gidf74b3,public From: chieng@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Is secret code impossible with VM & Bytecodes? Date: 1998/07/31 Message-ID: <6ptjmt$u7f$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 376824105 References: <35C18427.1295AF56@btinternet.com> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Jul 31 23:24:13 1998 GMT Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)