On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:57:00 -0600, Justin Conover wrote: > Does anyone see this as being a decent program? Do you think it > encrypt's the script well enough or is easily crackable? Given that it must pass the script to an external interpreter (unless it includes a copy of bash) it's trivially crackable and provides no extra security. If you want to protect valuable shell scripts (????) you'd be better off with an obfuscator or a generic shell->native code compiler. thanks -mike