Re: Cryptic comments (was re: non-volatile memory)

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From: l... Larry Rosenstein
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 02:52

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In article <1990Feb5.1...@newcastle.ac.uk> Lindsay....@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:
>wonderful program (which was not distributed!!) that systematically
...
>variable names used in the program which were rewritten with long
...
>The whole effect was to make the program *completely* unreadable and
>unmaintainable.

I just saw an advertisement for a product that did the same thing.  It's
called the C Shroud and it's published by Gimpel Software.  

It features a list of "obfuscation features" such as identifier
translation, replacement of if, for, ... by more primitive control
structures, string constants expanded to octal equivalents, and more.

-- 
		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
 Apple Computer, Inc.  20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B  Cupertino, CA 95014
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Subject: Re: Cryptic comments (was re: non-volatile memory)
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