[CALUG] What would YOU do?

[attriel]

> On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Jason C. Miller wrote:
>
>> For the sake of trying to keep code proprietary in the interim , does
>> anybody have any ideas as to how one could maintain the scripts in
>> a way that would make it difficult for someone else to understand
>> the logic that executes within them?
>
> As a pragmatic Perl developer, I would think its native syntactical
> quirks would be enough to obfuscate its intent without any additional
> compilation.  ;-)

you could always add comments.

seems to make my perl completely unintelligible :o


there's probably a module that you could use to encrypt the perl files,
then send a key to the wrapper script that then decrypts to memory and
calls into the script

i've never really worried too much about trying to hide my code.  i don't
seem to work with anyone who can understand computers anyway :o