Re: scrambling perl source code

["Benjamin A. Okopnik" <ben () callahans org>]

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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