ExtUtils::Embed and source code security

[BenRussell]

I was wondering if I embedded my Perl script code in a C program using ExtUtils::Embed and then compiled the C program, would this be a secure way of protecting my source code?

Is it at least reasonably secure?

What are the possible (and probable) ways that someone could retrieve the Perl code?

- Ben

 

[icrf]

Your luck's probably about best with something like that. I'd probably lean towards something like listed here, but yeah, should work. All the ideas like PAR generally embed a perl interpreter and your source code and modules together, which I imagine would be much easier to break than raw compilation from C, but I haven't had any reason to try.

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