Re: encrypted source file support in jdk?

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:41:05 +0200, tom forsmo <spam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

To explain again, what I am looking for is a way to protect the SOURCE
CODE and CLASS FILES during DEVELOPMENT, that means only when the code
is in-house. I am not talking about protecting class files distributed
to the public.

Let's presume the person you are most concerned about is a competitor.

How might they go about finding out what you are up to?

1. the easiest way would be to bribe an employee, one who has access
to the decrypted source.

2. the next easiest might be to join the cleaning team and see if
there are any backups, listings, passwords on bits of paper in desks
lying about. He might also install hardware keystroke monitors.

3. the third easiest would be to hire a hacker to use a backdoor to
install something to monitor file activity, logging and exporting
interesting files. He might also install software keystroke monitors.

Note that none of this has anything at all to do with your encryption
system.

You also have to consider the budget and tenacity of your opponent.
You don't need absolute security, just enough to make the prize too
expensive to be worth the game.
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