Safe sources with the debug encryption key

Last Updated on 17 September 2019 by Roberto De Pedrini For companies that distribute and install their software on customer’s systems, it is obviously not advisable to leave their sources “unattended” on those systems. But even without installing the sources, a “smart” user could access the code by simply starting a debug session for programs compiled with the DBGVIEW (*SOURCE / *LIST / *ALL) options, which embed source into the program object. On the other hand, compiling programs without this option complicates debugging operations (which inevitably happen sooner or later …). …