Freeware source code obfucator ??

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Soeren - 09 Nov 2003 19:45 GMT

I have found a number of freeware bytecode obfuscators, but I haven't seen
any freeware source code obfuscators. Are there any ?

Thanks in advance.

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Roedy Green - 09 Nov 2003 21:35 GMT

>I have found a number of freeware bytecode obfuscators, but I haven't seen
>any freeware source code obfuscators. Are there any ?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/obfuscator.html

for your options. What would be the advantage of a source code
obfuscator?

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Soeren - 09 Nov 2003 23:09 GMT

Hi Roedy, thanks for your reply

I have been told that proper bytecode obfuscation is impossible - Is this
wrong ? Can you protect your source good enough by bytocode obfuscation
alone ?? I thought of using both....

> >I have found a number of freeware bytecode obfuscators, but I haven't seen
> >any freeware source code obfuscators. Are there any ?
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

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Roedy Green - 09 Nov 2003 23:39 GMT

>I have been told that proper bytecode obfuscation is impossible - Is this
>wrong ? Can you protect your source good enough by bytocode obfuscation
>alone ?? I thought of using both....

The best obfuscation is native optimisation. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/nativecompiler.html

Creating a standalone exe as you can with Jet professional
Jetperfect would likely be the hardest to crack since all the calls to
the standard library routine names are hidden.

Any sort of byte code is relatively easy to decompile.

I would not make any difference that I can see if you did the
obfuscation on the byte code or the source.

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Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

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