I Have gone through google and CPAN and finds some information over there . can it be helpful for completion my purpose. U people please suggest.
If my program name is rundbload.pl perl -MO=Bytecode,-H,-b,-k,orundbload rundbload.pl http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.8/ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm perl -MO=Bytecode,-H,-b,-k,-orundbload rundbload.pl On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Anirban Adhikary > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list > > I want to encrypt my perl source code. I am using some modules in my > code. > > Among them some are downloaded from CPAn as well as some are written by > my > > -self. So how to encrypt all perl codes includes the modules. > > > > Thanks&Regards in advance > > Anirban Adhikary > > Short answer: It is a bad idea and there is no good way. > > Long answer: You can encrypt the source if you want, but if you are > going to let a user run your code, perl will have to see unencrypted > code at some point and the user can capture the code at that point. > You could also obfuscate the code, but this has similar problems. You > can even recover the source code from PAR archives and executables. > > If all you are trying to do is add a hurdle for them to jump take a > look at PAR* and PAR::Packer**. These have the benefit of adding > value in addition to making it harder to see the source. > > * http://search.cpan.org/dist/PAR/lib/PAR.pm > ** http://search.cpan.org/dist/PAR-Packer/lib/PAR/Packer.pm > > > -- > Chas. Owens > wonkden.net > The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. >
