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Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: Pyarmor, guard your python scripts
Date 2015-09-15 19:36 +1000
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Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> Pyarmor is a simple to use tool which is capable of importing or
> running encrypted Python script files. Moreover, it can apply encoding
> algorithms to your Python scripts, in order to help you protect them
> before you can distribute them. You may also generate license files
> with custom validity conditions.

Protect them from whom? What is the threat model against which Pyarmor
is claimed to protect? Who is the attacker, who is being protected?

> The program allows you to encrypt files, but to also open and run them
> as if no protection was applied. Moreover, it can run or import
> encrypted Python scripts in any target machine, only in specified
> machines or before a specified date. This aspect can be controlled by
> the creation of the license files: bound to a hard disk serial number
> or by an expiration date.

So a Python file encrypted this way will be arbitrarily restricted in
how it can be inspected for debugging, performance monitoring, and
testing?

This seems to explicitly treat the user of the Python software as a
hostile attacker. That is not a friendly or respectful position, and I
hope I misunderstand Pyarmor's operation.

-- 
 \       “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good |
  `\       programmers write code that humans can understand.” —Martin |
_o__)                                      Fowler, _Refactoring_, 2000 |
Ben Finney

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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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