Palpandi <palpandi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 12:07:13 PM UTC+5:30, Palpandi wrote:
> > What are the ways to encrypt python files? > > No, I just want to hide the scripts from others. Which others? You can hide the scripts from them by never showing those others the scripts. If you don't trust a recipient, don't let them receive the file. I suspect you are asking “how can I distribute Python modules to people without those people being able to read them”? You can't, because executing the file requires reading its contents. Anyone who has a machine that can execute the file has a machine that must, by necessity, read its contents. This is the dilemma of those who think they want Digital Restrictions Management (DRM): attempting to treat recipients as untrustworthy, while still telling them they can use the files. If you a person is in possession of the file you're trying to restrict, on a machine they possess, with a key needed to unlock the content, then that person is in possession of everything needed to unlock the content. On the other hand, if one of those (e.g. the key to unlock the content) is missing, then the file is useless for whatever you're saying the recipient can do with it. The only feasible solution is to distribute files only to those recipients you want to have them, and can trust to do with them as you ask. If you don't trust a recipient, don't hand the files to them. On the other hand, if you're asking something else, you will need to be much more explicit. You have not helped us understand what you want thus far. -- \ “This sentence contradicts itself — no actually it doesn't.” | `\ —Douglas Hofstadter | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
