[olug] PHP obfuscators / compilers?

[Dave Rowe]

Typically obfuscation, like serial keys, is used to keep honest people
honest.  What is built with 1's and 0's can usually be broken with 1's
and 0's - it's just a matter of moving the line just far enough to
make the dollar cost be less than the cost of reverse engineering /
unraveling obfuscation.

With either ionCube or Zend Guard, I believe you can encode packages
with licenses such that the obfuscation is unique to each customer,
and only their license decodes it.

-Dave

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Aric <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> LOL @ Jay
>
> PHP obfuscation can be undone by those that know what they are doing.
>
> If the code is specific to one customer I would have them sign an
> agreement to make sure you get paid for your work.
>
> If the code is going to a few customers I would consider using a service
> orientated architecture and have some critical parts of the code ran on
> your servers.
>
>
>
>> I'm curious, what is the motivation behind wanting to obfuscate/compile
>> php?
>>
>>
>> http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/28915273.jpg
>>
>> --Jay
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not the way I write, baby!
>>>
>>> I'm sort of leaning towards ionCube at this point, though it looks like
>>> its competitors are Zend Guard and HipHop.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Isn't php self obfuscating?   wink ;^)
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Anyone have any experiences with PHP obfuscators or compilers they
>>>> want
>>>>> to
>>>>> share?  What works, what doesn't work, any gotchas?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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