obfuscation

I'm interested if anyone knows exactly how effective/safe/protected PHP's bcompiler is against reverse engineering. The introduction page makes a bold claim: In terms of code protection, it is safe to say that it would be impossible to recreate the exact source code that it was built from, and without the accompanying source code comments. It would effectively be useless to use the bcompiler bytecodes to recreate and modify a class. Perhaps the key word is "exact" -- how true is their claim if you remove it? PS - Please, no lectures about compilation/obfuscation versus licensing. :) It is just

Have been battling with Proguard all day and have tried many examples and solutions on the official Proguard site as well as StackOverflow. I have a large project I need to obfuscate, which has a number of referenced library projects and Jars. I am getting 725 warnings from proguard from 2 libs, com.google.common and twitter4j. I can happily get the project to compile if I add the following: -dontwarn com.google.common.** -dontwarn twitter4j.** However, the app crashes instantly on open, so this seems to just be a way of hiding an issue, not fixing it. The proguard-project.txt is in the

I don't quite understand how Silverlight code works within the browser. Are the assemblies downloaded to the client machine? Is there any chance of the code getting decompiled using Reflector or some similar tool? If so, what options does one have to protect the code? Do .net obfuscators work with Silverlight? To view a Silverlight application the client download a .xap file that contains the dll and one configuration xml and optional resources. The dll contains compiled c# code that runs in a Silverlight runtime in client machine. Silverlight runtime is basically a subset of complete .net

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 4 years ago . Is there a free tool capable of pruning unused code from a CLI assembly? I know there are obfuscators that are capable of performing this optimization, but these all cost money. Is there a free (or even open source) tool that removes the unused code in an already compiled assembly? Jb Evain There is. It's called the Mono.Linker . What I wrote three years about the Mono.Linker ago pretty much still

All Metro applications must be inspected before distribution through Windows 8 AppStore. Does this mean it will not be allowed to use code obfuscation? Or it is still possible, and only some specific aspects are going to be monitored during such inspection? Here are some facts: Marketplace for WP7 allows C# apps be obfuscated (even MS he advises doing so) and I don't see any reason why Windows AppStore would ban such apps. It is almost certain that some vendors will provide compatible C++ obfuscator. You should care about your clients not crackers. :) a lot of hacks for code obfuscation will

I want to make a JavaScript application that's not open source, and thus I wish to learn how to can obfuscate my JS code? Is this possible? keparo Obfuscation: Try YUI Compressor . It's a very popular tool, built, enhanced and maintained by the Yahoo UI team. You may also use: Google Closure Compiler UglifyJS Private String Data: Keeping string values private is a different concern, and obfuscation won't really be of much benefit. Of course, by packaging up your source into a garbled, minified mess, you have a light version of security through obscurity . Most of the time, it's your user who

Is there a way to hide/protect/obfuscate MS SQL Stored Procedures? I can vaguely understand obfuscating code if it's extremely advanced in what it does, but I think obfuscating your SQL may not be worth the hassle. Anyway, a lot of the SQL I've seen around here comes obfuscated as standard. If you must hide it, how about the "WITH ENCRYPTION" clause? http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/07/01/sql-server-explanation-of-with-encryption-clause-for-stored-procedure-and-user-defined-functions/ See the ENCRYPTION option for the CREATE PROCEDURE statement. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library