On 11/9/10, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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?
Can you reveal a bit about the nature of the valuable secret in the code? Is it some weights like with Coca-Cola's recipe and Google's PageRank? Some entire algorithm, like some proprietary stock trading scheme/plan implementation? Or something bigger? The entire thing? Just ickyness over the quality of it, and the glaring holes that'd be visible to outside devs? :) You might be able to re-factor the whole codebase to use something like Strategy Patterns from Gamma et al's book. Then you'd keep the Strategy implementation parts to your own code base and development, while the more generic "engine" part (which just calls the Strategy when needed) might be developed a bit more freely and openly. Still I doubt this is your case since you apparently already have some functional code, so there hopefully is some designed structure in it. -- Arttu V.
