Protect mta complied scripts of decomplier

[KariiiM]

Hello community,

Today i'm asking about does MTA has an abilities to protect complied codes from being decomplied? Because just yesterday i tested a decomplier programe and it worked successfully..

Also i wanted to suggest something, as you knows most of new servers forget to make an compilation to their client scripts,so why not MTA team make the downloaded client scripts complied automatically like that most of new servers will prevent this problem.

~Regards,KariM

[John Smith]

on luac.multitheftauto.com you also got obfuscation option (makes the code little bit harder to figure out and those decompile programs won't work on it)

though you could implement your own encryption, it's not really hard.

[KariiiM]

Yeah you're right, i just tested two ways to see the results,so decomplier can't decomplie scripts who are complied here luac.multitheftauto.com not like normal compliers you can decomplie them successfully as i did in the first test

[Noki]

As far as I know, the reason scripts cannot be automatically compiled is because they would need to include the encryption key with the application itself. Of course, it wouldn't be in plain sight, but it would be there. This exposes the risk of someone finding the key through means of reverse engineering. It is a lot safer for them to not run this risk, and that is why we have luac.multitheftauto.com.

Another way to ensure your scripts cannot be decompiled (I have tested this myself a few times, feel free to dispute) is to write them in OOP or use the old nested tables trick (local anticompile = {{{{{{}, {}, {}}}}}}).