Re: Protecting perl source code

[dws]

I signed a contract to provide 6.5 hours of contracting services. ... he has asked me to look into some methods to protect the source code we developed (all mod_perl/apache).

Wow. You lucked out. It'll take you at least 6.5 hours of looking around before you tell him that a lot of people have chewed on this problem and have come up with very little.

[tame1]

For standalone scripts, Acme::Bleach comes darned close to keeping out all but a darn good perl wizard. It'll take someone almost as good as Damian, I think, to reverse engineer a Bleached file, even with Bleach.pm to use to see how it was done. Unfortunately, I'm working in mod_perl, so these are not standalone scripts.

What does this little button do . .<Click>; "USER HAS SIGNED OFF FOR THE DAY"

[Anonymous Monk]

Acme::Bleach comes darned close to keeping out all but a darn good perl wizard.

That module already contains the debleaching ingredients and it wouldn't take a wizard to write a bleached debleaching script.

use Acme::Bleach;
$/ = undef;
$_ = <>;
s/.*^\s*use\s+Acme::Bleach\s*;\n//sm;
print Acme::Bleach::brighten($_);