You can obfuscate the script all you want, but to run the script on a machine, it must decrypt on the machine, so that doesn't actually get you anything.
You may have to write it directly in C and then write an installation script that you can deliver it with. The script would (probably) extract & decrypt your source C, compile it and then remove the source code.
Not a great plan, because I can hardly write in C myself, so it's no easy task. You might be able to script a similar logic using shc, but it might be tricky to ensure it will work for every server you might want to deliver it to.
..... and like Corona688 says, it's only obscuring it. There will always be a way to reverse engineer it if the end user is determined enough. It might be enough to deter a casual curious customer though.
I'm not sure that shcomp is in ksh93. I think it is a separate executable and not always supplied by default. I have AIX 6.1.8 which doesn't have it and RHEL 6.5 which doesn't even list it if I yum whatprovides */shcomp I did, however, get zsh offered on a wider search but that seems to be a different shell altogether.
I did find a hit here for source code, but not being a C programmer, I have no idea how to compile it other than:-
..... which gave a load of errors that I don't understand at all.
I've used shc but struggled with the limited portability of the object. Perhaps shcomp is an alternative with more portability, even if there is reduced obscurity. Can anyone suggest where we can get it to do some testing?
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Originally Posted by rbatte1
I'm not sure that shcomp is in ksh93. I think it is a separate executable and not always supplied by default. I have AIX 6.1.8 which doesn't have it and RHEL 6.5 which doesn't even list it if I yum whatprovides */shcomp I did, however, get zsh offered on a wider search but that seems to be a different shell altogether.
I did find a hit here for source code, but not being a C programmer, I have no idea how to compile it other than:-
..... which gave a load of errors that I don't understand at all.
I've used shc but struggled with the limited portability of the object. Perhaps shcomp is an alternative with more portability, even if there is reduced obscurity. Can anyone suggest where we can get it to do some testing?
Robin
Thanks for the correction; it is part of the ksh93 distribution, but not a builtin.
There is a tar file of ksh93 at https://packages.debian.org/stable/shells/ksh , however I didn't try to comple it, I just looked it over. There is a tar file of Debian patches, some of which seem to relate to shcomp, but I just skimmed it, noting that file rules is a makefile that seems to make ksh93, including shcomp for the Debian environment.
As Scrutinizer noted in the other thread, there is not much obfuscation, but the topic of encryption of shell scripts has been talked about extensively, with the consensus that encryption is not viable because one needs the key to decrypt the encrypted source. Perhaps with shcomp some obfuscation is enough.
I did find a shell-to-perl converter, which can obscure the source for the non-perl-savvy, but that seems to be getting far afield.
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