From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2004-06-03T10:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Obfuscating Ruby Code.

Daniel Berger wrote:

>Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de> wrote in message news:<slrncbrv95.qmp.trash@o2.net.philkern.de>...
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>>On 2004-06-02, Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>ruby -e 'require "crypt/fog";eval(Crypt::Fog.decrypt(IO.readlines("cfoo.rb").to_s.chomp,44))'
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>>And how do you obfuscate the salt? Because that's the problem we try to deal
>>with. As soon as you call the decrypter you need the password available.
>>
>>Bye,
>>phil
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>1) Put above code in file
>2) chown root file
>3) chmod 700 file
>
So does this mean that he should ask his client, to whom he is selling 
the closed-source ruby software, for root access to their servers?