Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C obfuscator
Message-ID: <1990May28.153754.20280@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12546@netcom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28 May 90 15:37:54 GMT

In article <12546@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>>I am looking for a program (or emacs macro) which will translate
>>C code into unreadable but functionally equivalent code...
>
>I don't think I care for your purposes...
>Such greedy double-dipping is beneath contempt.

Don't judge his purposes by your local bad examples.  The usual alternatives
to distributing obfuscated source are distributing only binaries (usually
for machines you don't have) or not distributing at all.  Which do you prefer?
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