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Re: Embedding perl ?
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Re: Embedding perl ?


  • Subject: Re: Embedding perl ?
  • From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:20:14 -0500

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Karl Kraft wrote:

a decent job of obscuring it, then you could leave it as a resource, unobscure it in code, and then pass it to the perl interpreter.

... and hope that the Perl interpreter hasn't been altered in such a way that it logs all of the code it runs. Beware the man in the middle...

If it is short you could just convert it to C

Even that isn't a hundred percent - the code can still be disassembled. Not completely, true - variable, function, and struct names, etc. can't be recovered. But if you're trying to protect an algorithm, all of that is more or less incidental anyway.

sherm--

Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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