Encrypt Your Scripts

February 28, 2008

 

Need a quick and easy way to encrypt the contents of a vbs script to keep its contents safe (well, decently safe)? Microsoft has a tool called Script Encoder that does such a thing. The operation is pretty easy, just install the tool on your workstation, create a working script, and drop to a command prompt.

C:\Program Files\Windows Script Encoder>screnc.exe "c:\scripts\original.vbs" "c:\scripts\encrypted.vbe"

Didn't have to install anything on the client side, script ran just fine on Windows 2003 SP2.

For more info, including examples and syntax, check out the MSDN Script Encoder Overview. They also have info on encrypting JScript.

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