[asterisk-users] Binary/unreadable configuration files?

[Alex Robar]

A bad product is in no way the only reason to encrypt your configuration
files. The configuration of a given set is your IP... Most people don't just
give that stuff away.

Alex

On 7/25/06, Kai Ober <kast.asterisk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> show dialplan or other commands from cli renders this unnecessary.
> the only way to make those things unreadable, IMHO is an
> sophisticated,komplex dialplan/extension.conf which is unreadable at all.
>
> or an other way may me using as much agi as you can,
> and an binary exe file which is encrypted.
>
> but i dont think at all, this is a solution:
>
> if your "product" is good at all, people would come back
> and ask, if they want to alter something.
> if your product is bad... you have to obfuscate things!!
>
>
> regards
>
> KAI
>
>
>
> Marcus Carlson schrieb:
> > Don't really know if this is possible but the way I think it works it
> > should be doable.
> > Have the configfiles encrypted and decrypt when asterisk is
> > starting/reloading and then encrypt again.
> >
> > Marcus
> >
> > Eric Bishop skrev:
> >> Anyone know if it possible to create binary/obfuscated/ human
> >> unreadable extensions.conf/sip.conf etc.? We would like to deploy a
> >> system in an environment where not giving out root is still not
> >> enough. We want to hide the contents of these normally plain text
> files.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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