Hi Jim,

Thanks for the info. I was trying to avoid creating any COMponents, so that my users wouldn't need to install any software onto their server, thus making it more attractive to companies using hosted services.

Regards
Mark

>Mark;
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>I don't know the name of it off hand, but I believe there is a tool that can scramble your variable names, and mess with the layout of your code to make it harder to understand. It's not true encryption though. The most secure way I know of is to move your critical code into a COM component that you call from the ASP.
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>>Hi,
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>>Does anyone know if it is possible to distribute an ASP application, and to somehow safeguard the code (by compiling or otherwise) to stop code being altered/copied by the clients/users?
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>>Thanks in Advance