From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T12:33:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Obfuscating Ruby Code.

On Thursday,  3 June 2004 at  9:58:38 +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de> wrote in message news:<slrncbrv95.qmp.trash@o2.net.philkern.de>...
> > On 2004-06-02, Daniel Berger <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > ruby -e 'require "crypt/fog";eval(Crypt::Fog.decrypt(IO.readlines("cfoo.rb").to_s.chomp,44))'
> > 
> > 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
> 
> 1) Put above code in file
> 2) chown root file
> 3) chmod 700 file
> 

Wouldn't a challenge/response system or private/public key encryption be better?

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Jim Freeze
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