Re: Who is using modified Lua versions, what are they and why?

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 8:51 AM Ką Mykolas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Some time ago I've been developing an encryption and signing tool for compiled Lua chunks.
>
> It involved a few slight changes in luac and lua:
>  - swapping calls to "require" with different call to a different function with statically determined parameters during compile time
>  - updating "lua_load()" (?, or some other loader related functions) with signature checks and loading from encrypted binary blob

interesting; we have developed a support like this for Lunatik without
modifying Lua [1, 2, 3, 4].

[1] https://luainkernel.github.io/lunatik/modules/darken.html
[2] https://luainkernel.github.io/lunatik/modules/lighten.html
[3] https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik/blob/master/lib/luadarken.c
[4] https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik/blob/master/lib/lighten.lua

Regards,
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Lourival Vieira Neto

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