OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria will be Free and Open Source!

• Posted by Craig Welch <euphoria at cwelch.org> Sep 20, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:

>> 2. Does it mean that we can see how shroud/bind encryption work?
> 
> I will probably have to (eventually) remove the code that knows how to
> decrypt bound and shrouded programs. If I open that small bit of
> source, it will become useless, and will offend people who thought 
> their programs would be highly secure.
> Even without this added encryption, programs are fairly hard to figure out, 
> since in 2.5 it's just a bunch of IL, and in earlier releases it's
> code with variables renamed, comments stripped, etc.
> I guess I'll have to "deprecate" that feature (i.e. maybe support it
> using a non-open subroutine for this release, but eventually 
> discontinue it. I'm open to suggestion on this.

I'm quite happy to pay a fee just for that one feature ...

-- 
Craig