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Stego for watermarking Perl5 code?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shabbir J. Safdar)
Mon Mar 22 18:01:39 1999
In-Reply-To: <199903202217.RAA12182@smtp1.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:18:43 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@mindshare.net>
So I'm looking to protect some Perl code from the situation where someone
might break into my site and copy it and start marketing it. I'm mostly
interested in going beyond what the lawyers are telling me to do, and it
occurs to me that it ought to be relatively easy to do stegonography over
Perl code, given the relatively free form nature of the language and the
fact that I can throw in all sorts of comments.
So, off I go looking through various online resources, only to find that
most of the tools are for watermarking image, audio, and video files. The
few companies I've called so far say their utilities that work on text are
in prototype, or don't exist at all. The Texto tool comes close, but isn't
really right.
I'm fairly motivated, and could adapt a decent library to a tool (in perl,
ofc ourse) should one exist. Does anyone have any leads on where I might
start looking?
-S
