Re: reverse engineer c or java

[fractalg () HIGHSPEEDWEB NET (Pedro Hugo)]

Hello,
Java is very easy to reverse engineer. Search for decompilers like JAD (my
favourite) and you get the whole java source code. IDA Dissampler pro is
awesome too for java reverse engineer. My experience to date is that java is
to easy to reverse engineer because you get the whole original source code .
I think there are some obsfuscators for java code. I have once saw one at
least the code comments mentioned that but it was useless since I had the
whole code :)
Try www.suddendischarge.com for some great reverse engineering tools.

L8rz!

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-----Original Message-----
From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of kj
Sent: sabado, 20 de Maio de 2000 7:15
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: reverse engineer c or java

> Hey KJ. I don't know if this sounds stupid or not, but this is
> basically what I want to know.
> Matthew
>
> Is there any difference in difficulty between reverse engineering
> an executable file or a Java Class. If the C or Java program is
> written with security in mind by an experienced programmer, how
> long would it take to reverse engineer each version of a fairly
> simple application?

The desired effect is to have a program that a client downloads off
the internet, and Matthew wants to know if it should be written in
c or java. Though, I take it both can be reversed engineered by
talented programmers; but I guess he wants to know which would be
harder or more complex to "hack".

I am not too sure, thus I am passing it on to you gurus.

K.J.

"Never argue with an idiot. He will take you down to his level, and
beat you with experience."