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Re: What is the best commercial grade Java Obfuscator?

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From: Valentino Kyriakides
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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