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moderated >> Free Perl obfuscation web service

by Liraz.Siri » Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:52:17 GMT

Perl readability keeping you up at night? Worried someone else might
one day understand your spaghetti code? Say no more! Your job security
woes are over!

I needed to obfuscate a bunch of Perl scripts a while ago. Now Perl is
famous for being naturally obfuscated, but I had something more extreme
in mind. As the thought of further obfuscating my Perl scripts by hand
horrified me, I looked around for a free automated solution.

Long story short, I didn't find anything decent, so I wrote my own.
It's pretty neat, and handles (almost) all Perl constructs. I kept
working out the bugs until it was powerful enough to obfuscate itself
recursively an arbitrary amount of passes.

Anyway, the pricing for the commercial obfuscation stuff is absolutely
outrageous:

"The Stunnix Perl-Obfus Single Developer License costs $879, and can be
purchased online in our store. May be used by the same user on any
number of machines. Full text of the license is here."

So I turned my obfuscator program into a web service anybody can use
for free:

http://liraz.org/obfus.html

Enjoy!

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moderated >> Free Perl obfuscation web service

by nobull@mail.com » Sat, 05 Feb 2005 03:53:01 GMT



Well I just tried a couple of what I'd consider 'tricky' constructs and
I tripped it up on the third attempt:

print '\'';

But then I assume this is only a joke anyhow.

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