Distributing applications that connect directlyto my database

[Owen Worley]

Hi All,

I am writing an application that needs to access a central database (hosted on my dedicated server).

The application needs to be run on numerous client machines and will be freely available in linux binary form.

Is there a secure way to ensure that in the event of the application being decompiled/disassembled, my mysql login/pass is not obtainable?

Or would I need to take another approach, such as posting encrypted web requests to a php script or similiar located on my server? (I don't want users to be able to sniff the web traffic and spoof posts to poison the data stored in the database).

The app in question is a high score/user stats table for an online game, each game server (not controlled by me) needs to report back to the master score server (controlled by me).

Thanks,

Owen