Perl Obfuscator

[Simon Wistow]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:31:14PM +0000, Chris Jack said:
> Can anyone recommend a good, free Perl obfuscator. I had a search on 
> Google, and there seem to be a zillion out there - but which one 
> should I choose? It needs to be able to handle classes, packages, 
> include files etc without effecting functionality/output.

There will inevitably be an entire fountain of mails coming your way 
saying that blah, blah it's not possible for a whole bunch of reasons - 
that you can only parse Perl with perl so you'll hit nasty edge cases 
(unless someone's started playing around with some of the B:: modules or 
Larry's MAD stuff) and that it's possible to recover the code in a 
recognisable form anyway.

That said, and if those limitations are acceptable for you, then 
I've head of people using the Stunnix obfuscator 

http://www.stunnix.com/prod/po/

to some success.

For free there was RJ's Perl Obfuscator.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rjsperlobfuscator/

Simon