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I don't know PHP at all; this is more of a question of curiosity. Following the PHP function below in the text file are a few thousand characters of text, such as: xnEFstUhSNWGSx5zTq4X/AUw/rtism+klrBETWg0xE1uwb49rnRxrgrgY5EEp3Y0uvTcvLqhUFOP 4n7LDLQpQ9UACTyuUjGBKmUScQCYLCP08u06t0K3nWTNiM7Q6bQMk/iZBE+UK1ywbVC1Lzr9OOEK Does this php function encode the random-looking text into php? Can the encryption scheme be figured out from this? EDIT: The client says he has full ownership and rights to the code, developed by someone else. How would it be decoded? Does it require a password? <?php //003ac if (

ionCube stores php files in encrypted format and it is installed as php extension but what i want to know is when I request the encrypted php file from non-encrypted php file how does php compiler executes it. Does it send the encrypted file to ionCube server and get the original file and compile that or there is something else. Means how the communication is going on between our server and ionCube. I guess it is through curl but i want to know how it works. As you may have picked up on now, original code is never obtained, and processing is based on bytecode. Here's some high level

Does anybody know how this PHP code is encoded? I don't know whether it's Zend, ionCube or something else. <?php if (!function_exists("T7FC56270E7A70FA81A5935B72EACBE29")) { function T7FC56270E7A70FA81A5935B72EACBE29($TF186217753C37B9B9F958D906208506E) { $TF186217753C37B9B9F958D906208506E = base64_decode($TF186217753C37B9B9F958D906208506E); $T7FC56270E7A70FA81A5935B72EACBE29 = 0; $T9D5ED678FE57BCCA610140957AFAB571 = 0; $T0D61F8370CAD1D412F80B84D143E1257 = 0; $TF623E75AF30E62BBD73D6DF5B50BB7B5 = (ord($TF186217753C37B9B9F958D906208506E[1]) << 8) + ord($TF186217753C37B9B9F958D906208506E[2]);

I'm a php developer and currently searching for software to protect php code. I know there exist obfuscators and encoders (and both).. but it seems that it's possible to "decrypt" code encoded with some software. So my question is.. if it is possible to decrypt source code produced by major software companies (zend, ioncube, sourceguardian).. why that produts are still on market? Why these software continues to sell if anyone can (pay to) decrypt everything in seconds? Btw, i asked this on ioncube forum and my message was.. deleted. regards. The answer simply reduces to: because there are