[ale] "encrypting" code

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:55:11PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > The word you are looking for is "obfuscating".  You can make it harder, but
> > you cannot make it impossible.  Of course, you probably can make it so it's a
> > violation of the DMCA :)
> > --
>
> The problem is that I can purchase tools now that will allow me to
> look at that code.  There are a few commercial vendors of Java
> decompilation tools that claim they can make the code
> readable and recompilable.

If someone wants to know that the program does, they will. SofICE and
IDApro are awesome for reverse engineering things such as this.

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