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Article #8215Re: What is the best commercial grade Java Obfuscator?
From: Valentino Kyriakides
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:06
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:06
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Well, that is a difficult question and depends on what counts most for you. For example I've tested some 12 obfuscators and most of them did a poor job in obfuscation quality, especially when they came across to obfuscate some of my JB OpenTools. Some have an easy to use GUI but are lacking sort of a powerfull scripting language to automate things. Also most of them don't have or offer an API, so you can't integrate them well into JB. - The only one so far I didn't really tested is "4th pass SourceGuard", since I knew that it is by far too expensive for me. So I can't say anything about this one. I finally found Zelix KlassMaster (ZKM) to be my obfuscator of choice, since it offers the best obfuscation quality I've seen so far and it also has a very powerfull scripting language and API build in. Also Zelix has an outstanding support and the guys there are really helpfull! - Best of all, their product is payable, even for stand alone fighters like me :-). - I've obfuscated my JavadocWizard first always with Retroguard, but then I realized that Retroguard doesn't obfuscate very well and it would be too easy for someone to reengineer even the Retroguard obfuscated code from my OT. - Then I tried Zelix KlassMaster and now I myself wouldn't be able to reengineer anything from the obfuscated code, even I know the sources and insight. - It's an enormous difference! But don't take my words for this, take a look at http://www.zelix.com there you can get a demo version for your own tryouts. Also take a look at CodeCentral, there I've placed a little JB integration wizard for Zelix KlassMaster (ZKM), so that you can use ZKM from inside your JB projects. Greetings Valentino "Ken Warner" <kwarner@cts.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3AD648B5.73314DE5@cts.com... > Hi, > > I really need a good Java Obfuscator to protect the > source to my applet that is widely used. > > I know about JProof. What other Obfuscators are > commercial grade? > -- > Ken Warner > >
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