Protecting your MQL5 source code and EA

[sir7williams]

Hi developers.

I am close to finishing my EA which i want to protect from unauthorized users. I have searched over this platform but I've only came across MQL4 3 simple ways of protecting your code. I have searched on the documentation of MQL5 but seems like it does not touch anything to do with securing  your code. If there is any ML5 article that i can learn this from, please link it on your comment. For any secret way of going about to secure my code, please send me a message. It will be highly appreciated.

One last thing, if there is any article i can read about Certifying an EA or anything about Certification of robots, please let me know.

[Sergey Golubev]

read this thread: Want to know details about Compile file with MQL5 cloud Protection

and this article: Securing MQL5 code: Password Protection, Key Generators, Time-limits, Remote Licenses and Advanced EA License Key Encryption Techniques

[MarkCast]

Hello

I am a little bit confused about these protections. I'd like to ask:

1) Since I am interested not to show the code (of the EA for instance), how much the compiled .ex5 file is secure (from anyone trying to read the code) ?

2) Do the protections described above also protect the code (from being shown) or just protects the EA from unauthorized use ?

Thanks

[Lorentzos Roussos]

MarkCast #:

Hello

I am a little bit confused about these protections. I'd like to ask:

1) Since I am interested not to show the code (of the EA for instance), how much the compiled .ex5 file is secure (from anyone trying to read the code) ?

2) Do the protections described above also protect the code (from being shown) or just protects the EA from unauthorized use ?

Thanks

it protects the source code . anyone can use the EA though

unless you have your own licensing system in the EA