Does Perl has a code hider

Nicholas Clark nick at ccl4.org
Thu Sep 17 10:11:52 BST 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:10:12PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:

> I came across a codebase the other day where they just obsufucated the  
> variable names - probably with truncted MD5 checksums or something.   
> Certainly made it  it a pain in the arse to read :), but nothing a  
> determined reverse engineer wouldn't find trivial to deal with.

sudo cpan Acme::Floral

With CPAN, everything is reduced to a one liner!

(It's a good story, and I'm sticking to it)

Nicholas Clark


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