Protecting your GH scripts

[maje90 (Riccardo Majewski)]

I’ve linked here 2 comments from David that summarize it all, but you should read the whole threads…

How to protect a Grasshopper program

It certainly shouldn’t be much slower when inside a cluster, I’d like to see this effect if you can share that file. But even the cluster password protection isn’t genuinely protection, it will not stop anyone who knows a modicum of C#. There is no way to protect a file that is expected to work without first decrypting it. If it must run when you load it, it must be automatically ‘openable’.

Secure .gh file

And when GH2 is released as open source it still needs to be secure from someone who has created their own version with all checks removed. This is in fact already possible since Grasshopper itself can be disassembled, modified, reassembled and even modified in its compiled state using libraries such as Mono.Cecil If you’re trying to protect your files against non-programmers, clusters with passwords are enough, if you’re trying to protect your files against programmers, you’re in the wrong Un…

Citing him:
“If you’re trying to protect your files against non-programmers, clusters with passwords are enough, if you’re trying to protect your files against programmers, you’re in the wrong Universe.”