From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-10-25T06:07:00+09:00
Subject: Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)


On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:45 , Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:41:58PM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:36 , Dmitry Severin wrote:
>>
>>> Found link to RubyEncoder on InfoQ (
>>> http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/rubyencoder ), and just for fun,
>>> decided to look how difficult would it be to crack it :)
>>
>> haha! you are awesome. thank you for showing how easy it can be.
>
> Trying to "protect" your Ruby source code is like trying to "protect"
> music with DRM: doomed to ineffectiveness.
>
>  http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=363

well... to varying levels of difficulty, yes...

I can guarantee that I can obfuscate code better than rubyencoder  
can... well enough that you can't get meaningful information back out  
automatically (it would probably be quicker and more effective to  
translate it back by hand after doing an automated pass on it). Well  
enough that it isn't worth your time for nearly everything put through  
it.