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- From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Obfuscate C Code
- Message-ID: <brr724.b1p@wang.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:20:28 GMT
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- rich.friedman@matrix.sbs.com (Rich Friedman) writes:
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- >mckain@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Mark E. McKain) writes:
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- >>>Kok G Sang writes:
- >>>I really don't know where to post this question, but I need to know
- >>>if there are any public domain/shareware/commercial programs that
- >>>obfuscates C source code.
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- >>Purposely obfuscating C source code seems to be, in general, counter-
- >>productive. However, I realize that obfuscated C code can be used to test
- >>tools like C beautifiers and "lint".
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- >Unfortunately, depending upon the programmer, C source code can be well
- >obfuscated long before an "obfuscating" program is used on it.
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- Some people call this "shrouding source code" so that they can
- distribute source without making some clever algorithm known.
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