Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Languages

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From: "Bryan-TheBS-Smith" <b.j.smith@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Languages


>And by simply linking against it, you are
> not violating any US export laws either.

That has been eased. It's not as restrictive exporting
encryption technology as it used to be.

Encryption will not completely protect your code. But it will
make it more difficult. First rule of software development is there
is no way to keep a hacker out if they want in. But you can sure
make it harder for them.

> Of course much of the software I write is OSS (open source software).
> But even if I wrote commercial software, I believe the great majority of
> people (at least in the US) are principled

Americans are but a small percentage of the people that could pirate your
software.
I believe you are correct in the assumption ( and that's all it is ) that X%
of whoever
doesn't do whatever. There is no way to accurately determine the percentage
of US people
or companies using pirated software. I don't care what statistics you can
find, there is no
accurate way to determine this. Statistics are used to promote a point of
the people that
paid for the study.

I am however very concerned about what happens outside of the US where
lawyers
are largely ineffective.

I also know, that here is an "army of hackers" 'out there' hacking and
cracking software.

> I don't know about you, but I don't see an "army of hackers"

Then you aren't looking in the right places.

> If you mean "security through obscurity," yes. If you mean "real
> security," er, NO, have to disagree there.

There is NO real security. Anything you write, I can get to with an ICE.
Simple as that. Somewhere, the 'check' will be done and with an ICE I
can get to that code 'in the clear'.

But, the point is, don't distribute code that has a big neon sign showing
where your secrets are!

> And then you should be using a real crypto solution.

Hobbiest and beginning commercial programmers won't usually know this.
They also will have the assumptions that once their source is compiled
it's protected. My point was simply to point out that using Delphi or C++
Builder, their code was open to the world a lot more than the same code
compiled with MSVC++ or other compilers.

later,
Larry E.