
When you install a custom tag on a machine, you trust the tag’s creator. For
compiled tags and objects, you usually don’t have access to the source code to
examine it. For CFModules, you can usually review the code, unless it’s encrypted.
The ColdFusion community has put out a large amount of open source code for
people to use. .
When you want to distribute your own code and you wish to make it closed
source, encryption will allow you to do just that. CFEncode.exe is shipped with all
versions of ColdFusion, and will allow a programmer to encode any text file so it
can be read only with ColdFusion.Actually, the preceding statement is not 100-per-
cent ...