On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
> Am 09.11.2010 05:52, schrieb Grant:
>> This is OT, but you guys have proven extremely insightful over the
>> years and I would love to hear what you think.
>>
>> I've been working on a particular software project for a long time.
>> I'd like to hire a team of developers to take over the project, but I
>> consider the code to be valuable and I'd like to keep the whole of it
>> secure, even from my own developers.
You can't work on code you can't understand. If you try, you just end
up breaking things.
>> I was thinking I could do this by using some technique to obfuscate
>> the true intention of the code modules. Maybe a recorded series of
>> search/replaces for variable names which are reversed once code
>> editing is complete? Has any software been made available to aid in
>> an endeavor like this?
> About what programming language are we talking? For Java and
> Javascript, there is a range of obfuscators available. For C/C++, I
> don't think it is really necessary. Can't you simply put your stuff
> into a binary-only library?
Read the OP again. He wants to obsfuscate the code to make it
unreadable for the people he's hiring to work on it.
It would be simpler and cheaper to hire developers who don't
understand programming language in question, computers, programming in
general, or even english.
Then don't let them access any computers that have the source code.
You'll get better results that way -- far fewer bugs will be
introduced.
1/2 :)
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I think my career
at is ruined!
gmail.com
