Re: Writing spaghetti code for obfuscation/encryption

spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm considering writing some convoluted and confusing code in order to
> hide the access/decryption of some important data in an app. I don't
> really want to be dependent on any particular OS at the moment.
>
> The problem is how to generate this code without becoming confused
> myself, and how to make sure it is orthogonal, or always produces the
> same result with the same input.
>
> I would like for it to be similar to the copy protection schemes of
> old, that make tracing difficult and unpredictable.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on how this might be done, besides
> undocumented opcodes and simple encryption?

Don't do this at a source level (ie, don't *write* obfuscated source).
Either run your source code to an obfuscating pre-processor before you
compile/assemble, or run your binaries through an obfuscator...


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