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Article #8775Re: How to protect Source code?
From: Michael Kutscher
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 11:22
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 11:22
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Hi! In JB 3.0 is under project-settings-compiler settings the option "seal code" (translation from german, might have another name in the english version). ...But... I don't know, if it's any good or if there are "unsealing" tools since aeons... Another way needs lots of work: Scramble the code yourself: Just as in good old basic-times: When your programm works _absolutely_stable_, make some spaghetti-code out of it. Put useless additional functions into it, break functions in two, put funktions together in one that have nothing to do with each other. And of cause don't write "a++" ... instead "a=b+c/4" with c set to 4 anywhere else and a set to a another place. It's just write, when You self have a real horror of ever correcting an error in it... :-) The one, who decompiles it, will get a bit more horror: he hasn't any speaking variable-names :-) But: Nothing of this will stop a real enthusiast who wants to clone your ideas... it will just dicouradge him and increase his working hours. Greetings Michael
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