[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-01-19, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the
>> bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does for PHP or Filter::Crypto for
>> Perl?
>
> The iron law of cryptography: there is no cryptographic solution to a
> problem in which the attacker and intended recipient are the same
> person.
>
> Schemes like this are at most an annoyance to people willing to
> reverse engineer your code.

And they somehow usually end up being an annoyance to customers who
are not trying to reverse engineer your code but are merely trying to
use it legally.

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