> Subject: Re: LUG: C++/C question
> From: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:12:50 -0500
> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
>
> The point of the program is to generate a sample of a random variable with distribution defined by the input data I'm trying to conceal from the user. So I can't use substitute or dummy data.
>
> The program is extremely simple; the value is in the distribution derived from medical records (the private data), not in the code or algorithm.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Stephen Roller <scroller@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
> > One common way I see this handled in research is make the program load
> > the .data file in or whatever and do the process. Then distribute the
> > binary without the data. If you want to use the binary, you have to
> > ask for permission. Say for research purposes only or whatever.
> >
> > And yeah, like Kristopher says, generate some fake data or an obscured
> > subset of your data, or something.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Kristopher Tesh <kitesh@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> >> If you can remove identifying data, it may become legal to distribute. If
> >> your purpose for including the data is to demonstrate the program, it's not
> >> so hard to generate 100-odd dummy entries. Make a table of 2-5 values for
> >> each parameter and randomly assign them.
> >>
> >> On Dec 6, 2011 8:20 PM, "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That's a good point.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011, at 08:08 PM, Warren Myers wrote:
> >>>> I'd hasten to point out that if you're putting the data in the source
> >>>> file
> >>>> (in any form), it's still readable in a hex editor. In the good old days
> >>>> of
> >>>> DOS/Windows (my exposure to ASM programming), it all goes in the CODE
> >>>> segment - which means it's readable and decipherable by anyone who cares
> >>>> to
> >>>> open the file in a hex reader :)
> >>>>
> >>>> WMM
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 18:39, Daniel Underwood
> >>>> <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hey folks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Related to some research I've done, I want to make publicly available
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> program written in C++. The problem is that the program reads input
> >>>>> data
> >>>>> from a bunch of text files, and I can't make the data publicly
> >>>>> available
> >>>>> due to contractual obligations. I need to figure out how to rewrite
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> program so that all of the input data is compiled into the machine
> >>>>> code.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There is a lot of data. Below is a snippet of code to show how much
> >>>>> data
> >>>>> I'm referring to (each of the constant integers below is the size of a
> >>>>> corresponding array of doubles). Does anyone have any suggestion as
> >>>>> to how
> >>>>> I might hide this data inside a compiled binary?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (I suspect it's possible to use sed/awk to change the input text files
> >>>>> so
> >>>>> that they can be placed directly inside the source code files, but I'm
> >>>>> wondering if there's a better way to do this.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Many thanks!
> >>>>> Daniel
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [BEGIN CODE]
> >>>>> double AW3[2500];
> >>>>> double AB3[2500];
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int NCa1p1NUM=9925;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p2NUM=832;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p3NUM=160;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p4NUM=72;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p5NUM=88;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p6NUM=28;
> >>>>> const int NCa1p7NUM=50;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int NCa2p1NUM=30414;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p2NUM=2673;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p3NUM=738;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p4NUM=292;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p5NUM=246;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p6NUM=56;
> >>>>> const int NCa2p7NUM=54;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int NCa3p1NUM=28647;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p2NUM=3299;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p3NUM=1450;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p4NUM=641;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p5NUM=570;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p6NUM=153;
> >>>>> const int NCa3p7NUM=115;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int NCa4p1NUM=27370;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p2NUM=3142;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p3NUM=1763;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p4NUM=1150;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p5NUM=1509;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p6NUM=478;
> >>>>> const int NCa4p7NUM=366;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int CAa1p1NUM=164;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p2NUM=34;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p3NUM=9;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p4NUM=2;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p5NUM=8;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p6NUM=2;
> >>>>> const int CAa1p7NUM=0;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int CAa2p1NUM=1077;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p2NUM=176;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p3NUM=107;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p4NUM=66;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p5NUM=57;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p6NUM=3;
> >>>>> const int CAa2p7NUM=10;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int CAa3p1NUM=1815;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p2NUM=223;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p3NUM=180;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p4NUM=177;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p5NUM=218;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p6NUM=42;
> >>>>> const int CAa3p7NUM=20;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> const int CAa4p1NUM=2140;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p2NUM=165;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p3NUM=144;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p4NUM=134;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p5NUM=349;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p6NUM=136;
> >>>>> const int CAa4p7NUM=126;
> >>>>> [END CODE]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Daniel Underwood
> >>>>> North Carolina State University
> >>>>> PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
> >>>>> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> >>>>> phone: XXX.302.3291
> >>>>> fax: XXX.515.5281
> >>>>> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Warren Myers
> >>>> http://warrenmyers.com
> >>>> http://twitter.com/volcimaster
> >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmyers
> >>>>
> >>> --
> >>> Daniel Underwood
> >>> North Carolina State University
> >>> PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
> >>> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> >>> phone: XXX.302.3291
> >>> fax: XXX.515.5281
> >>> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
> >>>
> >>
> >
>