RE: [PHP] Compiled Source for PHP?

> > IIRC, what it will do is work with precompiled Zend bytecode and > then parse > that when the page is requested. Writing a decompiler wouldn't be terribly > difficult, so there's probably not that much security, even if encrypted. > > On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Joe Stump wrote: > > > I'll believe it when I see it - and according to Rasmus it's > only going to be > > an obfusicator (or however you spell it) which means if you > have it on your > > machine you can jsut unobfusicate it. > > From what I have heard and seen myself this is TOTALLY UNTRUE there is no easy way to unencode the code. The alogarithms are very complex and difficult to decode back to PHP. You might conciveably get it back to Zend Bytecode (I havnt seen the alogaritms that Zeev and Andi used) but I would imagine that would be a task in itself and when you get it back to byte code its still not much use.. youll have real fun reading through the bytecode and figureing out whats happening? Every decompiled a C/C++ app? You know you get it in ASM lang at best?? It will be like reading that but without any real documentation.. I havnt seen any copies of the decompiled win32 source code going about cause someone decompiled it to ASM then translated it back to C.. if you are clever enough to do that then there is no need for you to do it as you could write a far superior application in the time. As for the Jan release date I would imagine that is also accurate so I hope you will all be getting your copy from Zend on the 23rd January..Sign up your email here http://www.zend.com/store_update.php and be notified of the release and opening of the store when it happens. James -- James Moore PHP Quality Assurance Team jmoore@php.net