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| From | alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts |
| Date | 2015-09-18 10:06 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <mtgnnd$dl3$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 01:31:50 -0700, Jondy Zhao wrote: > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 4:08:57 PM UTC+8, alister wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:38:32 -0700, Jondy Zhao wrote: >> >> > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 1:02:09 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico >> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > The loader only can see the compiled scripts as ast nodes, even if >> >> > the load some tools could dump the separated ast node to bytecode >> >> > and de-compile it, think of one script is divided into thousands >> >> > of pieces, it's not easy to assemble them again. >> >> > >> >> > The final solution is to distribute the loader with encrypted >> >> > scripts, only my own loader can run the encrypted scripts. >> >> >> >> So anyone who's going to run your program needs your loader. If >> >> someone wants to redistribute your code, s/he can simply distribute >> >> the loader as well - and you're right back where you started. You >> >> have still achieved nothing in terms of preventing redistribution. >> >> >> >> Please do not do this. Not only are you not achieving the goal you >> >> think you are, you're making a mess for people to have to deal with. >> >> >> >> ChrisA >> > >> > But the loader and the encrypted scripts could be bind to one fixed >> > computer when I distribute them to end users, so the end users can't >> > redistribute them to any other machines. Actually this is what some >> > commercial software does. >> >> Making life difficult for legitimate users whilst causing Pirates minor >> difficulties at best (crack once distribute many).. >> >> Copyright legislation is what provides you with protection if you need >> it >> >> Commercial users do not risk running unlicensed software because of the >> damage a piracy case against them would cause to their business, not >> because they cant get it! > > I agree with you absolutely. Maybe I can show you the purpose of Pyarmor > by the following case: > > When we express a box, we can close this box with a lock, this equals > encrypted scripts, or we just close the box without a lock. Pyarmor is > just as this lock, it make the box more security, but it can not protect > the box completely. And if the person at the other end looses the key it causes a great deal of trouble. Alternatively the highway man that holds up the delivery truck simply takes a pair of bolt cutters to the lock... yes it stops a casual snooper but that is all -- A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. -- Harry S. Truman
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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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