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Sneaky Sneaky

We have a -government- customer that wants to buy our code so they can run the program themselves. We are using some code that we consider proprietary in nature (I.E. we developed internally how to obtain results that they seek) We want to hide that or lock their ability to understand what we do, as to retain other programs with said company - but out of good grace sell a program that is obsoleting so they may run it at their pleasure.

What sort of sneaky sneaky tricks do you guys have to bury code deep?
I was thinking of a pulling the code from a text file (have never done this). But I'm also not sure how robust that can be.
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  • If you do it in VB.Net it's a piece of cake to transform the .exe back to source code and work out the algorithm.

    In general: If the computer can execute it, a human can see what instructions are executed and, with enough time spent, the algorithms used can be re-constructed. If it's worth the time is a completely different question...
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