in reply to Obfuscating Perl (on purpose!)

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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Re: Re: Obfuscating Perl (on purpose!)
by mcai7et2 (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2001 at 20:58 UTC
    It is not for security, nor is it what I would do in their circumstance, but they are paying the bills so it is up to them.
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      They may be left with the final decision, but it is your job to persuade them to do the *smart* thing, and by the way, java object code can be de-compiled back into sourcecode.

      "cRaZy is co01, but sometimes cRaZy is cRaZy".
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