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Re: Java class obfuscation
From: northern snowfall <dbailey27 () ameritech net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:28:58 -0500
I was wondering if anyone has any documents compairing the different java class / method obfusction tools that are available. I am in particular currious to know about the ones that are very easy to bypass vs. those that are extremely difficult.
You can't obfuscate java interpreted byte code just like you can't obfuscate CPU machine code. The JVM would have to be altered to ingest your obfuscated machine code. Every type of obfuscation can be defeated as soon as it loads the byte-code into memory for analysis by the JVM. Thus, you may not have readible byte-code on the disk, but, you *will* have it in core. Don http://www.7f.no-ip.com/~north_ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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