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'Protecting' Perl Code?

Posted by Cliff on from the security-through-obfuscation dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "Ok, so here is the scenario: my company has some software that is used internally and it is written in Perl. We now need to put this code on a server that has 'public' access (it's a university machine). We provide root access to the system for the purpose of learning, but we need to keep the code from being viewed or edited. Is there anything to do besides the 'perl2exe' and the ActiveState compiler? How effective are those really at protecting code?"

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  1. Perl comes with an obfuscator by default.. by mkavanagh2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..and it's called "Perl". You don't need to do anything at all for your code to be unreadable.