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Anyone?  I believe that was the name of the tool used to encrypt coldfusion code, to make it more difficult for others to read.  Thanks.

Anyone?  I believe that was the name of the tool used to encrypt coldfusion code, to make it more difficult for others to read.  Thanks.

See note at the bottom of
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00001176.htm

[i]Note: You can also use the [/i][b]cfencode[/b][i] utility, located in the
cf_root/bin directory, to obscure ColdFusion pages that you distribute.
Although this technique cannot prevent persistent hackers from determining the
contents of your pages, it does prevent inspection of the pages.[/i]

Phil

I would recommend against it. There is a CFDecode utility that can be found at
various location on the Internet and it decodes the templates perfectly in
seconds. All encoding does is make the application harder to support because
you loose  critical debugging info when error occur -- like line number.