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.
Is it possible to have the "secret code" perform outside of PC-DMIS, ie. create an executable in Visual Basic that performs whatever stuff you want to hide and call that from within PC-DMIS??
If you can't auto-obfuscate the code, you could at least scramble a bunch of variable names and use some wonky construction & formatting to accomplish the same goal.
There's no way to make it impenetrable, but you can certainly make it not worth the time
If you can't auto-obfuscate the code, you could at least scramble a bunch of variable names and use some wonky construction & formatting to accomplish the same goal.
There's no way to make it impenetrable, but you can certainly make it not worth the time