Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Scott
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:40:33 -0400, Chas. Owens wrote: >> But the names (variables, subroutines) can be rendered meaningless. >> Since picking good names is one of the most important contributions a >> good programmer can make, trying to understand and change a large body >> of code that has the wo

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-22 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-08-22 12:52 PM, Jenda Krynicky wrote: If you are writing some code for a client and then give the code to the client to run on HIS computers then the client can see the code. And there's nothing you can do about it. Of course there is: SOAP -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth,

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-22 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Shawn H Corey > On 10-08-20 03:46 PM, Tobias Eichner wrote: > >> Why do you need any obfuscator? If you want to protect your code from > >> web access, put it in a module in a directory that cannot be access from > >> the web and put a stub that calls the module at the site. > > > > It's no

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-22 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 22:18, Peter Scott wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:27:29 -0400, Chas. Owens wrote: >> There are no good obfuscators.  A user can always get the source back >> out. > > But the names (variables, subroutines) can be rendered meaningless. > Since picking good names is one of t

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Scott
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:27:29 -0400, Chas. Owens wrote: > There are no good obfuscators. A user can always get the source back > out. But the names (variables, subroutines) can be rendered meaningless. Since picking good names is one of the most important contributions a good programmer can m

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 16:09, Bob goolsby wrote: > Morn-n' -- > > You might want to consider a couple of things -- > >   1) "Obfuscation" in an interpreted language can't really be done. > You can make it harder for the User to read you code, but you can't do > anything that makes in hard (or imp

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Bob goolsby
Morn-n' -- You might want to consider a couple of things -- 1) "Obfuscation" in an interpreted language can't really be done. You can make it harder for the User to read you code, but you can't do anything that makes in hard (or impossible) for the User to *run* the code. Source code distribu

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-08-20 03:46 PM, Tobias Eichner wrote: Why do you need any obfuscator? If you want to protect your code from web access, put it in a module in a directory that cannot be access from the web and put a stub that calls the module at the site. It's not as easy as this, since people receive th

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Tobias Eichner
> Why do you need any obfuscator? If you want to protect your code from > web access, put it in a module in a directory that cannot be access from > the web and put a stub that calls the module at the site. It's not as easy as this, since people receive the source code files. I know that obfus

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-08-20 01:32 PM, Tobias Eichner wrote: Hello, I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more affordable or distribut

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 13:32, Tobias Eichner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial > products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. > > Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool

Re: Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Uri Guttman
>>>>> "TE" == Tobias Eichner writes: TE> I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several TE> commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) TE> are quite expensive. TE> Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-

Perl obfuscator

2010-08-20 Thread Tobias Eichner
Hello, I'm in search for a Perl obfuscator; I know there are several commercial products available, but all (at least the one I found) are quite expensive. Maybe you know of a reliable and feature-rich tool that is more affordable or distributed as open source ? -- To unsubscribe, e