Compilation strategy

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Dec 17 00:48:48 PST 2012


On 12/17/2012 12:24 AM, Rob T wrote:
> If we want to allow D to fit into various niche markets overlooked by C++, for
> added security, encryption could be added, where the person compiling encrypted
> .di files would have to supply a key. That would work only for certain
> situations, not for mass distribution, but it may be useful to enough people.

That simply would never work any better than just emailing someone an encrypted 
file, a decryption key, and expecting the end user to decrypt the files, then 
run the compiler on it.

Consider that dmd is open source. You cannot embed secret information in it.



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list