17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Check out a product called C-Shroud by ??Gimpel Software... I think it does this.. or at least tries....
C-Shroud does nothing with zero-knowledge proofs, or anything nearly that sophisticated. It simply mungs identifiers, strips comments and whitespace, and things of that sort. The idea is to get the machine independence (heh) of C, with the unreadability (heh) of object code. It can't really be that hard to read -- after all, most of the human-work in disassembly is precisely the job of analyzing an uncommented HLL program with meaningless identifiers. Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu