From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T08:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a interpreter extension


On May 22, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

> On 5/22/06, Kris Leech <krisleech@interkonect.com> wrote:
>> Its an application that deals with highly sensitive data, I dont want
>> insiders to be able to write a bit of ruby and dump the data to
>> file/screen...
>
> You are talking about two different things: hiding code (algorithms)
> and hiding data. Hiding code is useless because if it can be executed
> by a computer it can be cracked by a person. The millions of patches
> on the Internet prove that even little known programs are cracked  
> as soon
> as they appear. If your data is hidden by your code being hard to
> understand, it will be visible very soon - binaries or not.

How true is that? Bypassing a license key check is a LOT different  
than reverse engineering a full binary (and being able to make sense  
of it). I'm no black hat so I'm honestly asking here. I have no clue. :P

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