Actually, in one Perl book (now which one was it...?), a module that patterns over the script which must be decoded by an included library is mentioned. This is actually the purpose of Filter and its subclasses. Decide on which one you need. They work great- I know my clients well enough not to trust them with sources- I have the same thoughts as you. The best part of Filter is that you don't have to go through and change various stuffs to make code ununderstandable- just send it through and it's unreadable. I'm surprised no one mentioned it- it is mentioned in the big blue book.

While it's not impossible to crack, it'll sure put a damper on "quick-code-stealing" stuff. Of course, Perl(or interpreted languages in general) are not best for provided source code restrictions since the source is included with every copy. One thing you may try is Malcolm's perl compiler- he's still working on it, though, I hope.

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In reply to Re: Obfuscate my perl code by AgentM
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