From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-10-26T07:55:59+09:00
Subject: Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)

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On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:07:00AM +0900, Ryan Davis wrote:
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> On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:45 , Chad Perrin wrote:
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> >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=3D363
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> well... to varying levels of difficulty, yes...
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> I can guarantee that I can obfuscate code better than rubyencoder =20
> can... well enough that you can't get meaningful information back out =20
> automatically (it would probably be quicker and more effective to =20
> translate it back by hand after doing an automated pass on it). Well =20
> enough that it isn't worth your time for nearly everything put through =
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> it.

I can probably guarantee that, if you do that, it's not worth *your* time
either.

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