Re: encrypted source file support in jdk?

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:42:41 +0200, tom forsmo <spam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Try a little more open minded thinking next time you ask questions, dont
just assume the person you are talking to is asswipe.

Quite often people want to spend huge amounts protecting software that
nobody wants to pirate. They think it is just the thing to do. There
are legal remedies as well.

Usually all you want is just to make it more expensive to crack your
code than compose it from scratch. The problem is, even with native
compilation, all you can do is slow down a determined hacker. After
all, the CPU has to crack the code to run it, so in principle all the
information needed is also available to the hacker.

To block brute force attacks you pretty well have to make the program
mutate and get fresh information frequently from the net, information
the hacker does not have in advance.

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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