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Re: What is the best commercial grade Java Obfuscator?

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From: Ken Warner
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:50
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Thanks Valentino.

I will look at ZKM.

Valentino Kyriakides wrote:

> 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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Ken Warner
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