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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...