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Visual Fox 6 - Encryption
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| Hi, all:
My question is related, but not exactly as Leonard's below(DBF Encryption):
Since when you distribute an application in VFP6, it's really "open source"
because the user can easily open any .prg, .dbf, etc. with any text viewer; I
need to hide all of this information from the user; otherwise, I would have
to write a totally new program in a different language so the code is
"hidden".
Now, is there a way to encrypt any of the files, - at least the .prg files
so that I can have some "hidden code" from the user anywhere?
Thank you.
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Rick
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| Dan Freeman 2005-10-27, 8:34 am |
| You shouldn't be shipping any prg files. If you build an EXE your code is
compiled into the exe so the PRG files are not needed. Add the Encryption
option during project build and turn off debug info and your code is even
more secure.
But note that nothing is truly secure. Uncompilers exist.
Dan
Rick wrote:
> Hi, all:
> My question is related, but not exactly as Leonard's below(DBF
> Encryption):
>
> Since when you distribute an application in VFP6, it's really "open
> source" because the user can easily open any .prg, .dbf, etc. with
> any text viewer; I need to hide all of this information from the
> user; otherwise, I would have to write a totally new program in a
> different language so the code is "hidden".
>
> Now, is there a way to encrypt any of the files, - at least the .prg
> files so that I can have some "hidden code" from the user anywhere?
>
>
> Thank you.
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