Java applications are deployed as a collection of class files, each class file containing bytecode (virtual machine instructions), as well as all symbol information from the source (symbol names, ...
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[PROGRAMMERS REPORT, November 19, 2002] -- Obfuscation found a place in many development toolkits with the advent of Java. Java's use of interpretive methods and virtual machines made it much easier ...
One of the consequences of developing applications with managed code such as .NET or Java is that source code extraction (reverse engineering) becomes a very simple task. Today more than 500,000 ...
Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation? A: The problem of preventing Java byte-code decompilation is almost ...