Need advice for obfuscating Python code

[Alexander Gavrilov]

Are you working in Microsoft, aren't you?

Alexander

"Cimarron Taylor" <cimarron+google at taylors.org> wrote in message
news:29e28c51.0202270014.61dbd1d0 at posting.google.com...
> I have used the following tricks before with Java code, some of them
> should be useable with python.
>
> 1. Use a source-to-source translator to convert all your class, method
>    and variable names into gibberish.
>
> 2. Introduce special "dispatch" classes to obscure the communications
>    paths.  E.g instead of calling foo.bar(), call dispatcher.bar(foo)
>    where dispatcher is a dynamically instanciated object.  Have lots
>    of dispatchers and periodically switch them around in meaningless ways.
>
> 3. Add lots of decoy code.  Put bar() methods in lots of classes which
>    are never used.   Include the gibberish versions of a few previous
>    versions of your code with logic deliberately reversed.  Intermix
>    meaningless logic with the code which does the actual work.  Bulk up
>    your product with a few dozen distributions of other redistributable
>    software.
>
> 4. Hide some initialization logic outside your program.  Have your
>    program step reload classes.  If your program manages external files
>    (e.g. userids or passwords), have it hide some critical initialization
>    logic there.  Encode some of your program state in records in a
database
>    which requires a separate initialization and/or installation step.
>
> 5. Distribute your program in separate pieces. Have your program partially
>    depend on external libraries.
>
> 6. Partition your program's operation into separate phases and/or
processes.
>    Have one process generate code on the fly to be executed by the other.
>    Hide important information in otherwise meaningless status messages
>    exchanged between the two.
>
> Most of these things will make your program more difficult to reverse
engineer.
> Heaven help you if you ever need to fix a bug in it!
>
> Cim