Hi Adi,

Thanks! I will take a look at this now :)

-c


On Sunday 20 February 2005 01:23 pm, Adi Fairbank wrote:
> Take a look at Crypt::License on CPAN.  I used it a couple years back to do
> exactly what you are trying to do.  It encrypts your Perl source code and
> then decrypts it on the fly.  There is a slight overhead for the
> decryption, but if running under mod_perl, that should be negligible since
> it would only need to decrypt on apache startup.
>
> Ironically, I set it up for a company who was trying to enforce payment by
> their customers, and then the bastard didn't pay *ME* for part of my work.
> (I was an independent contractor)
>
> Anyway.. HTH,
> -Adi
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:48:30 -0500
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We would like to provide a software package that uses mod_perl that
> > clients can rent from us, which gets installed on their machine. We would
> > like to build some type of license checking, but considering its easy to
> > tamper with perl code what options do i have?
> >
> > We would like to be able to "lock out" clients who may skip on the rental
> > bill, etc.
> >
> > We cannot host this for them either.
> >
> > Thanks!

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