David Vincent-Jones <geo### [at] galaxynetcom> wrote:
: Is there ant way in which the source .POV file could be encrypted so that
: the user would not have access to this source.

  Nope.
  Povray itself have to get, some way or another, a valid pov source code to
read. So if povray can get it, then the user can get it as well.

  Of course one way of "dumb-encrypting" the file would be to code it in
some way into a string or into an array of numbers and then making a loop
that writes parts of the encoded code into a file and then includes that
file (this could be made in parts so that only a part of the file is in
non-encrypted form at a time).
  This, of course, would stop only the most newbies from getting your code.
It would not require much knowledge about the pov-script to modify the loop
a bit so that it writes everything to a file and that's it.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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