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Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts

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Date 2015-09-15 23:29 +1000
Subject Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2015-09-15, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 may use this application to encrypt the files, in order to protect their content 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?
>
> I rather expect the answer to that questions is "laziness".
>
> It's like the lock on my front door.  It's not going to stop anybody
> who really wants to get in, but it will prevent the idle curious from
> wandering in and messing about with my stuff.

Maybe. It seems more like having a lock on your front door, with the
key permanently inside it. But maybe that's just me.

In any case, this needs to be clear about how much security it's
actually offering.

ChrisA

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Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 02:21 -0700
  Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-15 19:36 +1000
    Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 18:58 -0700
      Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 12:05 +1000
        Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 19:51 -0700
      Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-18 12:27 +1000
        Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 19:59 -0700
          Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-18 13:06 +1000
            Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 22:55 -0700
              Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 17:27 +1000
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 01:05 -0700
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 18:16 +1000
              Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-10-05 12:44 -0700
  Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 19:48 +1000
    Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-15 13:16 +0000
      Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 23:29 +1000
        Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-15 16:20 +0000
          Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 02:29 +1000
            Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-15 16:40 +0000
              Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 02:59 +1000
    Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 19:40 -0700
      Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:01 +1000
        Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 22:38 -0700
          Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-18 08:08 +0000
            Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 01:31 -0700
              Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-18 10:06 +0000
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 04:41 -0700
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-09-18 21:52 +1000
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:07 +0200
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 06:57 -0700
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Josef Pktd <josef.pktd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 08:55 -0700
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-10-06 09:25 +1100
                Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts Josef Pktd <josef.pktd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 07:35 -0700

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