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From: Bill Huber To: ARCVIEW-L19 June 1999 Dear ArcViewers, The Arcview help system states "Encrypted scripts allow you to protect your investment in Avenue coding by making your source code unreadable. ... Use caution when encrypting scripts; keep a copy of the source because you cannot "unencrypt."" As an Avenue developer I am very sorry to announce that none of this is true. If you are a developer who intends to protect your work by encrypting scripts, or has protected your work in this fashion, take heed. It is possible to decrypt any encrypted script, thoroughly, accurately, and quickly. Most can be decrypted using a simple Avenue program of less than 20 lines. To prove this point I intend to contribute such a program to the ESRI ArcScripts page. If it is not accepted (I don't know why it should not be: if one person can decrypt scripts, everyone should know about it and have the same capability) I will post it or a link to it at http://members.home.net/whuber. This failure on ESRI's part to help developers protect their ideas is exceptionally frustrating. Let us hope that ESRI makes amends in the next release of ArcView. Yours truly, Bill Huber William Huber, Ph.D. Quantitative Decisions Merion Station, PA whuber@quantdec.com
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