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Originally Posted by sde 
I won't link them here, but there are services available who will un-encode files that were encoded by Zend Optimizer and IonCube Encoder. generally they charge between $1 and $5 dollars per script.
Zend and IonCube are companies who put a lot more R&D hours into an encoding product than 1 person could do by themself. If their encoding/obsfucation can be reverse engineered, then it's safe to say that yours probably can too. For anyone to say otherwise would be quite ignorant. |
Mine is an obfuscator, not an encoder. You cannot recreate the original source code from the obfuscated version. Encoding can always be cracked.
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Originally Posted by sde I understand your comments about a deterrant, but if it is that important for someone not to see your code, you should have your own dedicated server overseen by a trusted and skilled aministrator. |
Anyone can see my code. What is important to me is for somebody not to understand it, take it and sell it or develop it further outside my control. There are no safe servers and the trusted skilled administrator is less reliable than a good obfuscator. Even if I had the box on my desk, I would obfuscate the code. Servers broken into.
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Originally Posted by sde If your code is distributed, then you should definately encode it somehow, .. but to think it's going to be difficult for someone skilled to reverse engineer is nieve. |
It's a fact that it is very difficult (i.e. impossible) for someone skilled to reverse engineer the code and the point I made in my last post was that it would not be worth the person's time. How do you recreate the original source code if everything meaningful has been one-way encrypted?