Re: Java class obfuscation

From: northern snowfall (dbailey27at_private)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 12:28:58 PDT

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    > 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_
    



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