RE: Hiding source code

Hmm...

If you go and look under Development Tools > JavaScript on
http://www.download.com/, you will see several programs that will "encrypt"
your source code by converting it to an extremely complicated JavaScript.

In answer to the original question, though, it is impossible to completely
hide your source code.

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Peter Benoit
> Sent: 16 July 2000 14:57
> To: 'Arcady'; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: RE: Hiding source code
>
>
> What ever happened to that Microsoft program that was
> supposed to encrypt
> HTML pages?  I can't recall it's name...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arcady [mailto:arcady(at)jps.net]
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 8:07 PM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Hiding source code
>
>
> A flash movie for the entire website is the only way to hide
> the 'source
> code'. More than likely this will mean Flash 4 plugin needed if you do
> anything more complex than buttons. That limits your audience down to
> somewhere in the not quite sure range of 60 to 80% of the web (Flash 3
> is in the range of 91% to 100% but doesn't accept action script).
>
> Even then there are Flash cracking tools out there. They
> don't give the
> complete .fla file back to the cracker; but they give enough...
>
> Unfortunately the current Flash developer community is pro cracker.
> Enough so that at least one of these cracking tool venders
> had a public
> presense at the FLash Foward 2000 conference. And enough so that calls
> for ways to stop the crackers are more likely to be met with hostility
> and people asking where you found the cracking tools than with people
> who want to sit down and brainstorm over how to stop the thieves.
>
> As for a javascript solution; it can be circumvented quite
> easily by the
> diligent.
>
> Riku Riikonen wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
> >
> > > >Hello!
> > > >I have a client who wants his source code hidden.  Is there any
> relaible
> > > >way to do this without adversely affecting search engine
> rankings?
> > >
> > > There's no way to hide the source code. The script posted
> earlier works
> only
> > > in IE and is simple to go around, another way is to start
> with about 100
> > > white lines in your code, yet another way is to put all
> HTML on one
> line,
> > > but it only stops people who don't know HTML anyway.
> > >
> > > So: tell your client it's impossible.
> >
> > One solution is some kind of java script or flash movie.
> But I don't think
> > you want to use those...
> >
> > --
> >    Fac ut vivas.
> >    Riku Riikonen.
> >    rr61232(at)uta.fi.
>
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