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Posted by Justin Koivisto on 05/13/05 01:08
Jason F. wrote:
> Justin Koivisto wrote:
>
>> Of course, then there are some added benefits to using ionCube as well
>> that helped persuade my purchase. ;)
>
> Such as? By far the only reason people use ionCube is so that they can
> get some vendor lockin by obfuscating the source code. That's nothing to
> smile about.
obfuscating? No, it's actually encryption...
There are handy features with the Pro version GUI (I think they renamed
it to Cerberus now) for packaging and distributing. I've also found that
in many cases, there is a performance boost, and the fact that I prevent
unauthorized files from including the encoded files helps me ensure that
correct version of the files have been shipped with the product.
Then there are what you would call the "vendor-locking" features like
limit script to run on certain IP (or MAC) address, server name,
expiration date, etc. Except for the encoding of the source, I don't use
and of those anyway. The biggest reason for the purchase was the fact
that I could encrypt my database connection details to be used on a
shared server where I had no control of the environment.
The fact that competitors that use the same server couldn't get the
source was just a plus to help me sell it to my supervisors. So again, ;)
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Justin Koivisto - justin@koivi.com
http://koivi.com
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