Simon Cozens wrote: > > Mark Aisenberg: > > Can anyone offer some info on the amount of "obfuscation" > > that these EXE packagers provide? > > If someone sends me a "-tiny" compiled version of > print "Hello, world\n"; > and a "-tiny" compiled version of another reasonably simple but > unknown piece of Perl, I'll let you know. I'm betting it's going > to be very little.
I'll send you a hello world exe tonight. one command line option on perlapp said something about "not including a compressed version of source code" or something like that. how much you can extract from what's left, I don't know. It's impossible to have secure, publicly distributed, software. so, then, its just a question of whether someone knows the secret that can get them close to the original source code. I know thieves and vandals wont be stopped by it. But I know thieves and vandals wont be stopped by a lock on my front door either, and yet, I have a lock on my front door. Greg
