Does anyone see this as being a decent program? Do you think it encrypt's the script well enough or is easily crackable? If it is a decent program, do you see a need for it in Fedora - extra's or something as an added security mechanism. Although I imagine with the fine grained control of SELinux this probably isn't really need, any thoughts? http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/%7Efrosal/sources/shc.html http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/%7Efrosal/sources/CHANGES http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/%7Efrosal/sources/shc-3.7.tgz http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117920/49/ " shc itself is not a compiler such as cc, it rather encodes and encrypts a shell script and generates C source code with the added expiration capability. It then uses the system compiler to compile a stripped binary which behaves exactly like the original script. Upon execution, the compiled binary will decrypt and execute the code with the shell -c option. Unfortunatelly, it will not give you any speed improvement as a real C program would. 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."