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i have been programing in vc++ for sometime and i want to make some free software for people to use but i really don’t want people to have a unprotected copy of my work. i just use what ever vc++ 2008 has when i build in right now so i don’t know if it is encrypted or now. i don’t need something that is top of the line i was just hopeing for something free and it would encrypt my project before i gave it out.
Well, “free software” can mean one of two things- free as in beer or free as in freedom. It sounds like you’re looking for the first of the two.
I’d say don’t bother with encrypting it. If you’re distributing a compiled program, there’s really no way to prevent someone from reverse engineering it if they wanted to… which is unlikely if your program is free anyway. Same goes if you’re distributing the source. Encrypt it all you like, but all it takes is one person with a decrypted copy to redistribute it.