Re: perl scrambling

[Devdas Bhagat <dvb () users sourceforge net>]

On 20/06/03 15:14 -0400, Charles Lacroix wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> The main reason i want to scramble the application is "it's on my todo list at
> work". The second reason is to make it as hard as possible for people to 
> modify the code mainly because we do not want to deal 
> with supporting our application if it has been modified by a client.
Maintain an internal MD5sum with yourself on each code version.
Check client code version, check your and client MD5sum, if they don't
match, contract is invalid.

> We had troubles with that in the past, and we do not want to deal with it 
> anymore. 
>
> We what to protect the code because we sale the application and do not
> want some other company to use what we have and modify it to sale it again.
Harsh. You will want to compile your code, or just encrypt it and
deliver to the customer. Everything except one initial file will be
encrypted, the initial file decrypts the application into memory and
runs it from there. Not entirely foolproof, but it should keep out the
people who would just copy the software.

<snip>

Devdas Bhagat

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