Re: executable obfuscator?
Re: executable obfuscator?
- Subject: Re: executable obfuscator?
- From: Steve Hershey <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:38:37 -0800 (PST)
According to my web investigation, this isn't enough.
Skilled reverse engineers with advanced disassemblers
can recover a remarkable amount of information from
stripped and optimized executables. I've never done
reverse engineering of an executable, so I'm relying
purely on the opinions of others. I imagine that this
type of work could be quite interesting and
challenging.
--- Mark Wagner <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Steve Hershey <email@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of a good executable obfuscator
> (as
> > opposed to a source-code obfuscator) compatible
> with
> > ANSI-C source code compiled & assembled by gcc for
> Mac
> > PowerPC and Intel processors? Something that
> > integrates nicely with X Code would be handy. I've
> > done a web search and have come up with a lot of
> > interesting info on source and executable
> obfuscation
> > (I had previously not even been aware that this
> > computer science subculture even exists), but
> haven't
> > come up with anything directly applicable to my
> needs.
> > I don't need to world's greatest obfuscator, just
> > something that turns reverse engineering gcc
> > executables from a cakewalk into a pain in the
> butt.
>
> Optimizing when you compile and then stripping all
> non-essential
> symbols should do the job.
>
> --
> Mark Wagner
>
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