Question

I’ve written some Perl programs and am planning on distributing them. They’re part of a large binary distribution (mostly compiled C/C++). If possible, I’d prefer to give up as little as possible (I’m responsible for delivering working software, not delivering clever algorithms). What is my best bet for hiding the Perl code so that if someone really wants to see the source, they’d have to put a bit more effort than in than simply opening the file in an editor?

Answer 1

You could encrypt your code and then at run time decrypt it and send it to perl stdin. (of course the decryptor would not be encrypted).

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