how could we protect our scripts ?? !!!!

hello,
well i came here today to discuss some thing very important to the all developers , we spend hours, days and months in coding and developing our scripts until offering their to the customers and suddenly we lose every thing cause of any hacker or cracker .and of course that is not fair for us .

every body knows the crackers and the hackers can decode the zend and now i heard about they can decode the ioncube 6.5 (the last version).

so now how could we protect our scripts ???? !!!!!

i spent 6 months in coding one script of mine, so should i encode it with zend or ioncube with big wish about the hackers and the crackers will stay away beside they gonna stay nice people with my script in case of i already know thy can decode it ??? !!!

so please guys any body have any suggestion about protecting our scripts ,lets share it please to help each other

thanks

 

try using codelock or zend optimizer. On zend you can put some backlink-call script

 

You can either compile it or encode it, or both.

 

ionCube PHP Encoder, Zend Guard - encoding is always the best way to protect your files !

 

ioncube is pretty good too

 

Ioncube is the most famous around..

 

I guess there is no a reliable free software around....? I think both Zen and ionCube need license purchase..

 

You need to pay to protect your script. Common software are ioncube & zend

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For free you can only upload your script to RapidShare

 

Here is my suggestion i wouldn't pay to get one of the scripts i created incoded, heres the reason one if the hacker gets a hold of it, it will get cracked and distributed if its worth while, i have seen plenty of scripts that use lastest encoding or have been compiled cracked and with full source, second the people that are set on your software will purchase it legally anyways.

 

well all that replies are useful , but i dont talk about almost of that stuff ,we can use obfuscator beside encoder but iam, talking about there are no safe encoder around . the hacker now decode the zend and the ioncube !!!

so guys we must figure out new better way to encode our scripts alright ??

 

Any widely-used form of encrypting code is inevitably going to be broken. The most secure way to encrypt your code is to come up with your own encryption method/algorithm, not because the algorithm will be very secure, but because (unless your script becomes famous or something) nobody is going to create a program to break the encryption, and so only those with sufficient technical knowledge will be able to crack it.