On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 05:58 +0100, Dario Minnucci (midget) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Dario Minnucci (midget)" <debian@midworld.net> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > * Package name : shc > Version : 3.8.6 > Upstream Author : Francisco Javier Rosales García <frosal@fi.upm.es> > * URL : http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/ > * License : GPL2 > Programming Lang: C > Description : a generic shell script compiler > > shc creates a stripped binary executable version of the > script specified with -f on the command line. > . > shc's main purpose is to protect your shell scripts from > modification or inspection. You can use it if you wish to > distribute your scripts but don't want them to be easily > readable by other people. You have got to be kidding. Quite apart from the irony of a GPL'd obfuscator, this won't really protect sensitive information, and will only give its immediate users a false sense of security (just as DRM does to publishers). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
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