Re: php security on shared hosts

From: Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:15:15 +0000
Subject: Re: php security on shared hosts
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:56:13 +0200, Marek Kilimajer <lists@kilimajer.net> wrote: > raditha dissanayake wrote: > > One aspect that we have not covered is using turck of zend to encode > > your scripts. You cannot rule out such a script been reverse engineered > > but it's still some measure of protection. > > I've never used encoder, so I might be way off. > > If he is able to use encoder, so are other users of the host. They can > then load his encoded script and use print_r($GLOBALS) and > print_r(get_defined_constants()) With some encoders, like Zend, you can encode the files so they can run only with other scripts encoded by you. If you try to run a not encoded script or encoded by other person, the files fail to run. Regards, Jordi.

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