Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- Subject: Re: Security With Show Package Contents?
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:49:33 -0500
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chunk 1978 <email@hidden> wrote:
> couldn't Apple implement
> some sort of password protection or optional block on viewing package
> contents with XCode so that apps are impossible to crack?
Impossible to crack? I totally agree - they should also make it
impossible for apps to crash, too! :-) Seriously, that's an
impossibly tall order. There's just no way to make something
impossible to crack (*or* crash for that matter, though you'll have a
better chance at this than the cracking thing).
The fact is, Apple ALREADY put a highly-effective* system into
place: Code signing.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
Caveat: This is supported only on 10.5 and above and is ignored on
older systems (per the above-referenced page). To make good use of it,
your app would need to simply *not work* on 10.4 and below. Not an
issue for new products that would support only 10.5 or above, but
worth pointing out nonetheless.
* - "highly-effective" != "impossible to crack"
--
I.S.
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden