Code obfuscation / decompilers?

Joshua Muskovitz josh at open.com
Sun Oct 8 23:13:19 EDT 2000


This has been covered in previous posts.  The algorithm, like it or not, is
pre-existing.  I have no choice but to use it.  Help me solve my problem,
don't criticize the constraints I work under.

-- josh

"Adam Sampson" <ats1 at ukc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:87pulbe215.fsf at cartman.azz.net...
> "Joshua Muskovitz" <josh at open.com> writes:
>
> > But...  I don't want prying eyes to easily reverse engineer our key
> > validation process, or it will become useless.
>
> If your key authentication system relies on people not being able to
> find out your algorithm, then you need a better authentication system,
> not a code obfuscator.
>
> --
>
> Adam Sampson
> azz at gnu.org




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