[Python-ideas] I have an encrypted python module format: .pye

[Gabriel AHTUNE]

>
> I think Guido's analogy is bogus and wrongly suggests that encrypting
> applications just might work if you try hard enough. If we can lock the
> door and keep strangers from peeking inside, why can't we encrypt apps and
> stop people from peeking at the code? But the analogy doesn't follow.
>

The analogy is you want to protect the doors with a lock from the guy you
gave the key. (source: house, encrypted: the lock, the way to decrypt in
order to run: the key)


> In the front door example, untrusted people don't have a key and are
> forced to pick or break the lock to get it. In the encryption example,
> untrusted people are given the key
>
(as an environment variable), then trusted not to use it to read the source
> code!
>

The problem is that he don't trust the customer.


> (Possibly on the assumption that they don't realise they have the key, or
> that using it manually is too difficult for them.)
>
> Ultimately, on a computer the user controls, with a key they have access
> to, they can bypass any encryption or security you install. That's why e.g.
> so many forms of copy protection and digital restrictions software try to
> take control away from the user, to some greater or lesser degree of
> success.
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
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