Hello World

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sun Dec 21 18:50:50 EST 2014


In article <54974ed7$0$12986$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use,
> except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code
> for production use.

Heh.  I once worked on a C++ project that included its own crypo code 
(i.e. custom implementations of things like AES and SHA-1).  The person 
who wrote some particular bit of the code had decided that deliberately 
obfuscating the function and variable names would somehow make it more 
secure, so that's what he did.

The mind boggles.  At so many levels.



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