What do you consider that are the best Perl Obfuscator tools currently available that work in Linux (i.e., Ubuntu)?

I so far had a look at: http://www.stunnix.com/prod/po/

What is your opinion on this tool, other commercially available or free tools and on Obfuscation in general as a way to protect the IP currently encapsulated in a Perl Program.

Here is some background:

I have a Perl Program containing IP that needs to be protected. I am looking at a technical solution for this purpose, since copyrighting, licensing, etc, are not enough (or applicable) for the particular situation I am dealing with.

Obfuscation is one of the paths I am very interested in pursuing right now.

I have originally thought about automatically translating Perl to C and then compiling C and posted in http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=832373. At this point I did not find a closure along that path, based on the experts' feedback on that thread.

The constraint that I have right now is that a program (e.g.,executable) needs to leave my hands, I cannot at this point keep the exec on my machine and allow remote access through an API.

I would appreciate your thoughts.

In reply to Best Perl Obfuscator Tool? by blueberryboost

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