This sounds like a sys admin problem. I don't know what O/S you are on, but even on MS there are ways to allow execute, but not read permissions. This is very easy to do on a *nix platform. If the "bad", but not so "bad" guys have read access to the source code, then I would say "game over".

If this is some sort of user config file that you want to be controlled by your program (and only modified by your program), then that is different. Leave the file in plain text and put a fancy "checksum" at the end. Lots of ways to do that. Program doesn't run if "checksum" doesn't jive. Your program controls encryption keys and algorithm to generate the "checksum".

In reply to Re: Binary config file suggestions by Marshall
in thread Binary config file suggestions by hushhush

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