Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for protecting numerical control codes, comprising decrypting an encrypted text file that defines how an event for a tool path data set is processed; processing said decrypted text file to obtain a set of instructions; formatting said set of instructions according to a definition file; and outputting said set of formatted instructions; whereby postprocessed machine controls are written and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for text-based encryption, involves accessing a text file with a plurality of lines of text characters; re-sequencing each of the text characters in the plurality of lines; translating a base representation for each of the text characters by an offset of a base value so that a resulting translated character is printable; inserting a plurality of other characters between each of the translated text characters on each of the lines to form a random character string; inserting a plurality of random numbers of random characters before and after the random character string to output to a resultant file; and including a translated seed with the resultant file.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for text-based encryption, comprising accessing a text file with a plurality of lines of text characters; re-sequencing each of said text characters; translating a base representation for each of said text character by an offset of a base value so that a resulting translated character is printable; inserting a plurality of characters between each of said translated text characters on each of said line to form a random character string; inserting a plurality of random numbers of random characters before and after said random character string to output to a resultant file; and including a translated seed with said resultant file and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for protecting numerical control codes, comprising decrypting an encrypted text file that defines how an event for a tool path data set is processed; processing said decrypted text file to obtain a set of instructions; formatting said set of instructions according to a definition file; and outputting said set of formatted instructions; whereby postprocessed machine controls are written and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.