Can someone reverse engineer a labview executable

[HughQuinn]

I am going to be selling software to a customer. I do not want the customer to be able to reverse engineer the executable that gets installed on their computer to see the algorithms in my code. Can I make my code so that it can not be reversed engineered if not what is the best way to do that.

[Ben]

"... Can I make my code so that it can not be reversed engineered if not what is the best way to do that. "

AS one who has reverse engineered code, I can answer "No, there is nothing you can do to to stop someone from reverse engineering it."

BUT

You can make it very impractical.

1) Password protect your source code and do not share it with anyone.

2) Make sure you do not enable debugging in the exe.

See Jim Kring's thoughts on this matter here.

Ben

This thread is a cross post from LAVA found here.

Message Edited by Ben on 11-14-2007 02:50 PM