Re: what's mean Options for specifying or deriving the key? -- hide/crypt perl code

[Discipulus]

Hello serpino and welcome to the monastery and to wonderful world of Perl!

I never used this module, so I cannot directly answer to all your questions, but, just in case you are not aware of it, I want to advice you on the not assured code hiding you are trying.

I know, from wise monks posts (see Re^3: Code hiding in Perl by afoken) that you can never hide or crypt perl code. Infact even the module that you are using need to decrypt the the code before passing it to the compiler. It's like what happen with music: if you can play it you can also copy it.

From Filter::Crypto documentation, under warning:

> In general, it is hopeless to try to prevent everyone from getting at the source code, ...

> This technique can never completely hide the original unencrypted source code from people sufficiently determined to get it

> Perl source code decryption filters work by intercepting the source stream (read from the encrypted file) and modifying it (in this case, decrypting it) before it reaches the Perl parser. Clearly, by the time the source reaches the parser it must be decrypted, otherwise the script cannot be run

The above advice is just to be sure yo are not doing a lot of work with no possibilities of a true success.

L*