Protecting Source Code

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Fri May 9 08:15:51 EDT 2003


John Wilson wrote:
> 
> Could you not encrypt the .pyc files and use a custom importer to decrypt
> them on the fly?
> 
> Key management then becomes the issue but there are various approaches to
> that problem depending on your level of paranoia.

Where do you plan to store the decryption key that it will not be
visible to the same prying eyes?  This idea doesn't fly.

-Peter




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