Preventing source code being obtained, copied, read by various means such as obfuscation and encryption. Applies especially to interpreted languages such as JavaScript where source code will be run directly on the user's machine.
Questions tagged [source-code-protection]
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Laravel Source Encrypt
Is there any ways available to encrypt the source code of Laravel? I do not want my client to see my source code. I want to encrypt all my PHP files and codes. Any idea?
FYI: laravel 5.2

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Android - Need a way to create the library(.aar file) without source code
My aim is to be able to distribute the android library application only as binary(WITHOUT SOURCE) to other developers.
So that they can make their own apps with it.
I am developing two android applications. The first one is library application…

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Oracle - Protecting Source-Code
After a quite exhaustive search, it would appear that there is no real and reliable way to hide code within Oracle's database (i.e. protect the code of routines, functions, packages and triggers).
The obfuscation (WRAP), though initially promising,…

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How to pepper executable code with non-regexable copyright?
I'm looking for an idea. An idea that can--in some form--allow me to pepper my Perl code with hard-to-remove copyright comments all over the place so that it's almost illegible and is difficult to remove using a regex--with the code still being…

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How to protect the source of a delphi app?
How could I protect my delphi app from being decompiled?
I know there are some software like themida that I think will do that but then the protected exe trigger the antivirus.

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How to protect freemium HTML5 from variable modification?
Some people have asked similar questions about protecting HTML5 apps and protecting freemium apps, but not both together. I'm asking this separately because I have the impression (whether right or wrong) that HTML5 is particularly insecure vs…

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Sharing R functionality with multiple users without exposing code
I have code that will read in and process data that I would like to allow multiple users to use, but I do not want to allow them to see the code.
Is there a way to do this using R or RStudio?

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code obfuscation for JAVA EE project
Currently i have an JAVA EE Project using Spring and hibernate framework. We are deploying it to the tomcat server in WAR format.
Now the clients needs to obfuscate the code before deploying it to the server. I have googled and found that only Jar…

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How do I deploy a flask web application but still hide my source code?
I know I can make python executable but how do I hide the source code for Flask application which sends data to the frontend - html,javascript,css etc.. I am using a common deployment server - hence the need :)

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Make Android test project available without source code ("make apk of the test-project")
I have an Android test project based on InstrumentationTestCase and using AndroidJUnitRunner.
I need to provide my project to another party but I don't want to provide the source code.
Currently I have two projects:
a Java project that installs the…

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How to protect applications ?
My boss have given me assignment to find how a web based application developed in .NET can be protected. As per agreement products developed in our company are an asset of the company and even non-developers can access the code. But my boss still he…

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How do I protect my PHP source code when selling a website to clients?
I would like some advice
Lets say I've made a product eg. Car rental Website/System (PHP & MySQL)
I want to sell it to 40+ Car rental companies
How do I stop eg. 'SA-Rentals' from just copying the code and giving/selling it to 'Cars…

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How much risk is exposing all the sources to a third party?
I've been arguing with a co-worker about how necessary it is to wipe or destroy the hard disks that were used for storing the sources and are replaced with bigger ones or discarded.
His point is that no piece of source code exposed to a third party…

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Protect C++ program against decompiling
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to decompile C++ Builder exe? Is C++ Builder exe safe?
I use Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express to write my programs. When i want to distribute my program I compile it with 'Release' configuration and also I set…

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Objective C - Protect Framework code
I have to show other people a project I'm working on but I want to protect a framework in the project from being readable. I just packed all the code in the framework and added it to the project.
The problem is that when the framework calls some…

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