About Hise script seen in plain text in binaries...

[ustk]

About this very old topic we discussed back in time...
I know decompiling a binary can expose Hise Script as plain text. But are the comments exposed as well or are they removed during export?
Wondering this because I have very sensitive information in scripts, and I'm sure I'm not alone...

[Christoph Hart]

@ustk said in About Hise script seen in plain text in binaries...:

But are the comments exposed as well or are they removed during export?

Nope. But the preprocessor is being processed before the script is embedded, so you can do this:

#on


#if 0
// The PIN for my bank account is 1234.
#endif

and your money will stay safe.

[Christoph Hart]

Also it's not stored as plain text, but as compressed zstd blob, but that won't stop the criminal masterminds of this world.

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Oh thanks! so it was time to ask! What haven't I thought about preproc earlier...

Also it's not stored as plain text, but as compressed zstd blob, but that won't stop the criminal masterminds of this world.

Yeah that what I remember now

[d.healey]

@ustk said in About Hise script seen in plain text in binaries...:

I have very sensitive information in scripts

Always assume that anything you put on the user's computer the user can see.

In other words security by obscurity alone is not to be relied on.

[ustk]

@d-healey Your secure way of thinking largely compensates for my laziness, Dave!