Re: Hide the code from users postgres

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:18 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> > I have no problem with him trying to protect his hard earned work. I
>> > just think he is trying to solve the wrong problem.
>>
>> It's a real problem faced by many businesses and solved by most
>> commercial DBMSs. Of course, it's basically impossible to solve in the
>> Open Source world, as there's nowhere to hide a key or obfuscation
>> algorithm. If akp geek is able to use EnterpriseDB builds of Postgres,
>> then he may want to look at PL/Secure, which will obfuscate his
>> pl/pgsql code:
>>
>> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pl_secure_standard_server.do
>
> That's interesting... does it just turn it into bytecode?

No, it runs it through a few different obfuscation algorithms to make
it very difficult to decode without knowledge of them.

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Dave Page
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