Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Glyn Astill
Subject Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)
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Msg-id 541262.42588.qm@web25804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Obfuscated stored procedures (was Re: Oracle and Postgresql)  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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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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