PERL CGI Beginners - Obfuscate source

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Obfuscate source

Augusto Flavio

2006-01-24, 6:55 pm

Hi,

I'm looking for a tool that obfuscate the source code of my commercial application. I found the stunnix but it is $879!!! Have other tool like it ? I'm looking a tool that the process to de-obfuscate is very hard for the 'perl hack users'.

Any idea?

Augusto Morais

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Paul Lalli

2006-01-24, 6:55 pm

Augusto Flavio wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that obfuscate the source code of my commercial application. I found the stunnix but it is $879!!! Have other tool like it ? I'm looking a tool that the process to de-obfuscate is very hard for the 'perl hack users'.

You are going about it very much the wrong way. There is no such thing
as complete source encryption. Licenses, patents, copyrights, and
trademarks are the way to protect sourcecode from being used without
permission, not technology. You should be talking to Lawyers, not
programmers.

See also:
perldoc -q hide
How can I hide the source for my Perl program?

Paul Lalli

Bill Stephenson

2006-01-24, 6:55 pm

On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Augusto Flavio wrote:

> I'm looking for a tool that obfuscate the source code of my commercial
> application. I found the stunnix but it is $879!!! Have other tool
> like it ? I'm looking a tool that the process to de-obfuscate is very
> hard for the 'perl hack users'.
>
> Any idea?

Hi Augusto,

The best tool to protect your code is a good copyright notice included
with the code.

Right now, there are no good tools to "obfuscate" perl code. If you
research this subject a little more you'll find that this question has
been discussed many times and the general consensus is that there is no
good reason to do this.

Kindest Regards,

--
Bill Stephenson

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