Re: scrambling perl source code

From: Benjamin A. Okopnik (ben_at_callahans.org)
Date: 06/18/03

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    On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:18:51PM -0400, Charles Lacroix wrote:
    >
    > hi, i found a couple of free/non free scripts that are able
    > to scramble the source of my perl scripts. But now starts
    > a new problem.
    >
    > How can i scramble the whole project and
    > not messing up mod_perl exported variables and methodes
    > in all my other scripts ?
    >
    > I want to scamble my modules and my scripts that go with them.

    You're wasting your time. There's really no effective way to obfuscate
    Perl code; if you think there is, you're simply unaware of the Perl
    debugger and O::Deparse/B::Deparse. Take a look at perldoc -q "hide the
    source"' and <http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=243011> for why
    trying this is futile.

    If you want to hide your source, use C or another compiled language (and
    even with that, note that decompilers today have become pretty slick.)

    Ben Okopnik
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