Re: AppleScript feature request - encryption
Re: AppleScript feature request - encryption
- Subject: Re: AppleScript feature request - encryption
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:54:17 -0800
On Mar 14, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Martin Orpen wrote:
I've been asked to create some scripts that I'd really like to keep
very
*hush hush* from both the client and the end users.
AppleScript's "read only" protection was kind of OK up to and
including OS
9, but with OS X you can retrieve all the AppleEvents, variables
names and
shell commands with one very basic shell tool :-(
Does anybody else feel that Apple should include some form of
encryption so
that at least the AppleEvents in the read only scripts and
applications are
a little harder to get at?
As stated, this would be completely pointless, because even if you
couldn't read the file itself, you could watch the Apple event
traffic when the script runs and get even more detailed information
than you could get by sniffing the with strings(1). (I assume that's
the shell tool you had in mind.) This is not new to Mac OS X in
either respect; tools were readily available to do both in classic
Mac OS (though admittedly none of them were in the base system), so
if you're paranoid now, you should have been paranoid a long time ago.
There are, of course, various ways to obscure the intent of code from
prying eyes, but doing anything truly secure is very hard. At some
point, you have to ask what it is that you're trying to hide and why
you care.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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