Perl Obfuscator

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Tue, September 18, 2007 8:00 am, Simon Wistow wrote:
> 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.

Rather than repeat those arguments, I'll incorporate some of them by
reference:

  http://perlmonks.org/?node=243011

> 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/

Ah, yes, Stunnix.  Never used it, never even looked at it, but in the
above mentioned thread, you'll get to see the apparent author of it
demonstrating his/her scintillating intelligence.  And witness the
birth of B::Deobfuscate.