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Re: Thwarting classdump, etc.


On 30 Jun 2005, at 04:23, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On Jun 29, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Annard Brouwer wrote:

In one project we chose to do the "sensitive work" in C and the rest in Java. If you choose to use this hybrid route that may be the best trade-off...


That sounds silly, the mindshare that C has among people with reverse engineering experience probably makes C code MORE likely to be picked apart, not less.


There were other advantages to using C for that part of the code, I know it would have been silly to do this just for "protection" even though I may have implied that (thereby contradicting with what I wrote earlier).
However, the main difference between Java and C is that for the former you can throw your code at a decompiler and you're done. And it's great! I've used this many times to fix bugs in other libraries. With C, especially when you build it without symbols, it takes more time to do this... But I agree with you that it is possible to pick it apart.

Annard
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