Re: Hide the code from users postgres

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Allan Kamau <kamauallan(at)gmail(dot)com>, akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hide the code from users postgres
Date: 2010-06-24 21:22:21
Message-ID: AANLkTinMlYLcMDPp0tvB5C0mDZMLV4wNJHf_DvCmgFxq@mail.gmail.com
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2010/6/24 Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> 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?
>

probably it doesn't - but it is a black box. So some minimal
protection is possible :)

Pavel

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