[maemo-developers] [New Developer]: Questions - Python Packaging / Free or Non-Free / Software Licensing

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Edward Johns <ejdomreg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rather than an external c program you could consider making a c
> extension that you can import into Python.
>
> Take look at cython (I seem to remember a tutorial on this in the pymaemo pages)

All that stuff can be easily circumvented easily by just editing the
source code and printing the key after it is acquired. Or, hooking
into the network communication. Or, whatever.

This kind of security is unimplementable locally without hardware
support, the best you can get is a small degree of obscurity.

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Ville M. Vainio
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