While we are at B::DeObfuscate

[Anonymous Monk]

Here is a list of other commercial Perl obfuscators: 1) Obcode 2) HOTIce Stealth Compiler (besides our favorite Stunnix Perl-Obfus). May be we'll produce deobfuscators for them too while we are at it?

[broquaint]

May be we'll produce deobfuscators for them too while we are at it?

Oh, B::DeObfuscate will work on them too, as they merely obfuscate the source which is easily rebuilt into a coherent form with some appliance of the backend modules (specifically B::Deparse). Until a progam starts to obfuscate the actual program execution (which could conceivably, but not easily, be done with some B op tree magic) B::DeObfuscate should do a fine job deobfuscating. It's sort of like the difference between describing something using lots of buzzwords and jargon and then translating that into something that everyone can understand without needing to restructure what was said e.g

quasi-technical

the translation unit was obfuscated by recombobulating the ascii representation of the potential bytecode

plain english

the programmers code was muddled up by fiddling with the text that might be run at some point

Not a beautiful example I know, but hopefully it gets the point across - source code obfuscation is superficial.

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[diotalevi]

HOTIce doesn't appear to obfuscate the source at all. Or at least no more than many posts here are without even trying. Same thing with Obcode. Are you sure you meant to mention those because they don't appear to do much (except perhaps remove whitespace (and then not all white-space) and comments).

Heck, my own obfuscator works better than those two.

[Added Oops! I misjudged Obcode. I'm not sure what the deal is but it appears to have two modes. The first is comparable to the Spannix code. The second looks somewhat decent. Its certainly reversable but it isn't immediately accessible to anything like Deparse. I suppose someone here could write a deobfuscator for that (obcode) but it'd be annoying.]

[hardburn]

HOTIce doesn't appear to obfuscate the source at all.

But it costs $4000! It must be worth something!

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