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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:48:57 +1000
Subject: Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pyarmor is dedicated to users who create their applications, components, =
scripts or any file with the help of the Python programming language. You m=
ay use this application to encrypt the files, in order to protect their con=
tent and your intellectual property, by encoding the scripts.
>
>
> The program allows you to encrypt files, but to also open and run them as=
 if no protection was applied.

If they can be run as if no protection had been applied, that
presumably means the loader is capable of decrypting them, right? So
what's to stop anyone from reading the loader, using it to decrypt the
actual code, and running it?

ChrisA