Good day fellow monks, I've been working on a commercial mod_perl software, that is supposed to be installed on the client's Intranet (LAN) server under Windows XP. My problem is that I don't want to give them the source code / or if I do so, it must be scrambled or obfuscated properly so it is difficult for them to understand it. I went looking on the net for proper perl obfuscation software but I couldn't find any that works.

Then I decided to write myself a small filter that removes my source code perl comments "#" and then the new line \n from each line... which is good as a start. Then I noticed that some times I have the # used in places like normal messages, and in some regular expressions... and the code that I am talking about is quite large... to manualy remove the comments. So I have been thinking and thinking and decided to ask you guys what must I do to make the code sort of protected from people's eyes. I understand that I can not realy protect it from a person that knows Perl... what I mean is to make it less readable so there is no easy way for somebody to alter / study it.


I am using Filter::Decrypt for all other source code that is not mod_perl... but unfortunately mod_perl doesn't support source code filters or may be it does... through Apache ... which I couldn't find either.


Is there a good perl source code comments remover... or mod_perl source filter
or other way to keep my source protected (even through hiding the folder in Windows with third party software).

Please help me.

In reply to How to protect a mod_perl script by avo

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