# Can we get some kind of simple integrity check for plugins? And maybe real protection someday?

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**Category:** UXP Plugin API\
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**Created:** [June 22, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/can-we-get-some-kind-of-simple-integrity-check-for-plugins-and-maybe-real-protection-someday/932 "2019-06-22T16:00:16Z")\
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Of course, it doesn’t help protect intellectual property, so people could still read the licensing code and try to reverse engineer licenses; I guess obfuscation would help a bit, or even just complex algorithms which are hard to understand. Security through obscurity.

So the ultimate answer is to have plugins whose code is protected, again, perhaps by having a private key (shared between Adobe the developer only) that is used to decrypt the plugin at installation time.

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