PCO is a small application that helps you obfuscate and encryps Perl generated scripts. Removes comments, blank lines, replaces variable, array, hash, and sub names, and handles string and numerical values.
Generates a short report detailing what it has done. Depending on the amount of feedback and interest expressed towards this program, more features (multiple file handling, watermarking in encryption ,etc.) may be added to future releases.
Here are some key features of "Perl Code Obfuscator":
· Removes comments, indents, line feeds, blank lines, spaces. Leaves POD info alone.
· Replaces scalar var, array, hash, sub names with meaningless ones.
· Replaces numerical values with expressions that evaluate to same.
· Replaces text strings.
· Encrypts obfuscated code if desired.
· Generates short report if desired.