| From: | Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc(at)openmv(dot)com>, Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql) |
| Date: | 2008-09-24 19:30:16 |
| Message-ID: | 541262.42588.qm@web25804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com |
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> C is not magic obfuscation gear. Anybody with a debugger
> can expose
> what it's doing. There have been math papers showing
> that it's
> impossible to hide the functionality of a piece of software
> based only
> on the ability to run it, so the entire prospect of
> obscuring the
> software's functionality when people can send arbitrary
> inputs to it
> is one of those "known-impossible" problems like
> the halting problem.
And the first word in the title is "obfuscated", not encrypted, secured or anything else...
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