I have to ask just why your client wants to hide his Perl code. Surely this goes against the Open Source ethic that brought us Perl in the first place.

If you do want to stop people from reusing your code, then security thru obscurity is no protection at all. As others have mentioned, just about any obfuscation technique can be broken by a determined attacker. You client's best bet would be to copyright the code and rigourously defend the copyright.

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and the boring jobs bearable" - me

In reply to Re: Obfuscating Perl (on purpose!) by davorg
in thread Obfuscating Perl (on purpose!) by mcai7et2

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