Dear all
This is the scenario
I want to give my code to someone which he will then run it on his
machine offline. But I do not want this guy to see the code. Is there
anyway that I can encrypt the code and run it on his machine.
Regards
Shuaib Z. wrote:
I want to give my code to someone which he will then run it on his
machine offline. But I do not want this guy to see the code. Is there
anyway that I can encrypt the code and run it on his machine.
I don’t know of any way to do this. I bet it would be much easier just
to set up a server at your host and let him access it. Puts some simple
password at the front if you need to. Then he can use it and never be
able to look at the code.
Thanks for the suggestion
The problem is that my agent will need to go to areas that has no
internet connection to make demos of the product. That’s why I need
him to run the app on his machine while he is offline. and I want to
encrypt the source code
On Jul 29, 12:22 am, Perry S. [email protected]
What are you trying to hide, exactly? Is this agent able to look at
Rails code and immediately understand what’s going on? If you don’t
trust him with the source code, how can you trust him to sell the
product? There’s a bigger issue at play here.
There’s a fundamental flaw in “encrypting” source code. To decrypt it
and run it, you need the key. If he needs to run the code without
internet access, then he needs the key.
You could use JRuby, and generate class files, but those are easily
decompilable.
In short, no, it’s not possible to encrypt / protect / etc that makes
the code completely protected. If anything, the code must be
un-whatevered into it’s normal text form when run, so if it’s in the
computer’s memory, it can be gotten access to.
Jason
Ruby is an interpreted language, therefore the source code must be in
the clear to be executed by the interpreter.
The only way I can think of to run encrypted Ruby code would be to
write your own Ruby interpreter that first decrypts the code before
execution. I’m guessing an interpreter capable of do that would be
really slow. Plus that interpreter would also have to have all
knowledge of how to decrypt the code, including the decryption keys so
it would be trivial for anyone with basic knowledge of encryption to
be able to decrypt the content anyway.
Your best bet would be to obfuscate the code, which is what some
people do with JavaScript. That does not mean that the code cannot be
read though, the interpreter still must be able to execute the
obfuscated code. Obfuscated code, but still be legal code
syntactically.
When it comes down to it, even compiled code can be reversed into
source. Java, for example, requires only a simple decompiler and you
get back some amazingly human readable source code.
so I can conclude that there is no way to have ROR code compiled or
encrypted in a straight forward way like using a plugin or a gem
thanks
Shuaib85 wrote:
so I can conclude that there is no way to have ROR
code compiled or encrypted in a straight forward way
like using a plugin or a gem
This topic has been discussed more than once here. The only ‘solution’
I
remember ever coming up is the one at
Don’t know if it’ll do what you want, but you might want to take a look.
HTH,
Bill
On 30 Jul 2008, at 16:28, Bill W. wrote:
look.
It doesn’t encrypt anything, just packages the app up in an exe.
Currently there is no bytecode compiler for Ruby apps, but some are in
the works.
RoR developers use other ways of distributing their apps (hosted
subscription service, …). We personally believe a good contract with
ur customers is far more effective than investing time into copy
protecting and actually giving them the code (even of they don’t
understand anything) is making them feel more secure about us (they
still have the code if our company would for some reason stop existing).
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
It seams like a fear that the sales person is not too trusty and that
he / she could break the agreement once the code is in their
possession.
The second strange part, why try to sell a web application at places
without the internet connection?
Almost allover one can find the mobile network that has ability to
connect to internet.
If you are not feel comfort to give the code then do not.
There is other means of presentation like slide shows and presentation
movies.