Re: obviscating python code for distribution

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Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> Hello:
> Thanks all for your information and ideas. I like the idea of open 
> source; I have a fairly large (or large, by my standards anyway) 
> project that I am working on that is open source.
>
> Here's kind of what I want to prevent. I want to write a multi-player 
> online game; everyone will essentually end up connecting to my server 
> to play the game. I don't really like the idea of security through 
> obscurity, but I wanted to prevent a couple of problems.
> 1) First I want to prevent people from hacking at the code, then using 
> my server as a test for their new setups. I do not want someone to 
> gain some extra advantage just by editing the code.
> Is there some other solution to this, short of closed-source?
> Thanks,
>
If your App meet some success, you'll need some help. You'll be able to 
get some only if the community grows and has access to your code. If you 
want to battle versus hackers, you have already lost (if your app hos no 
success, there will be no hacker anyway :o) )
Otherwise I guess that most online games execute all decisions and state 
machine transitions at server side, which is the only code you can 
trust. The client only forwards user inputs to the server, and display 
the resulting effect .

JM

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obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-15 20:04 -0600
  Re: obviscating python code for distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-16 13:29 +1000
    Re: obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-15 21:36 -0600
      Re: obviscating python code for distribution harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-15 22:48 -0500
      Re: obviscating python code for distribution Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-16 04:03 +0000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 14:40 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-15 23:41 -0600
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-16 08:49 +0000
            Re: obviscating python code for distribution Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 19:10 +1000
            Re: obviscating python code for distribution harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-16 14:40 -0500
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-16 13:05 +0100
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-16 16:00 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 16:12 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-16 00:17 -0600
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-16 00:20 -0600
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-17 10:22 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> - 2011-05-16 16:24 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 00:27 -0700
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-05-16 11:36 +0200
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-05-16 08:44 -0600
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-17 10:30 +1000
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 20:45 -0700
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 09:16 +0300
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 16:39 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2011-05-17 09:36 -0400
      Re: obviscating python code for distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-16 14:10 +1000
        Re: obviscating python code for distribution Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-16 13:52 +0000
          Re: obviscating python code for distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-17 10:27 +1000
    Re: obviscating python code for distribution Disc Magnet <discmagnet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 14:49 +0530

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