I'm looking to make my skunkworks files encrypted so others can't copy the code, but still have skunkworks able to run the scripts, is this possible?

http://www.google.com/search?q=jscript+enc...amp;startPage=1

you could always try to encode it then see if it'll run.. >Shrug<

I used Microsoft Script Encoder, but AC servers are down so I can't test it. I 99.99% think it will NOT work from what I did =P

Script Encoder does not offer any real protection. See this warning on the Script Encoder download page:


Freeware tools for cracking encoded scripts can easily be found by Googling.

The best way to keep your script code private is don't distribute it.

If that is all I needed to do, just have it so somebody looking at it and not attempting to hack it couldn't see the code, would using Script Encoder and then running the script with skunkworks work?

You could try it and find out. My guess is that it probably won't work. There's never been any great demand to make it work, since the consensus seems to be that using Script Encoder is pretty much a waste of time.

If you just want to make it hard to read, you can accomplish pretty much the same thing by taking out indentation, moving line breaks around at random, renaming variables to v1, v2, v3, etc. and so forth. Of course that makes it hard to debug too, but that's your call.

You could always rewrite them as com dlls instead.