How to decrypt ioncube

If I recall correctly, the encoder also performs optimisations and obfuscations on the bytecode, that help prevent decompilation. How are we doing?

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Asked 9 years, 3 months ago. Active 9 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 53k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. I don't know exactly , but I think this code encrypts php files as I read it here. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Leigh Leigh Leigh I tried one, and it even kept the function-name case. The answer simply reduces to: because there are dumbasses stupid enough to believe that PHP can be "securely encoded", the same way there are people stupid enough to believe that requiring a serial code for an application automatically makes it secure.

Will ionCube say so? Because it dissuades the large majority of script kiddies. I am not familiar with sourceguardian, but Zend is built in the same fashion, albeit a bit more secure and harder to beat than ionCube. However, whilst they're not trivial, they're not impossible to beat, either. Encoding is a process where the PHP source code is converted to an intermediate machine readable format.

This format is hard for humans to read and convert back to source code. As a result it protects your code from casual browsing. This means that if people obtain access to your site's code they will not be able to use that for unintended purposes.

In other words, if your user is not casually browsing , this will not hold up. I don't know about you, but I do not know a single non-dev who casually browses source code without the purpose of understanding it, and often, breaking it. The same thing is true of every single DRM method around. However, they're still on the market. Because, whilst they are not perfect, they're good enough to dissuade the large majority of people. The law and final word of this is: if you build it, expect it to be broken and plan for it.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 7 months ago. Active 8 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 55k times. Improve this question. Whom do you want to protect your source code from? Asking you as representative of everyone who wants to do this.

As for the OP - if you need to hide your code, you're doing it wrong.