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From: davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: (PD) C obfuscator/shrouder
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.162009.18420@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 16:20:09 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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There have been many respondents to my request for a C
obfuscator/shrouder.  Most have pointed to Gimpel software or
other software houses.  Two respondents were kind enough to volunteer
their products to the public domain:

Russ Fish: fish@kzin.utah.edu has a good shrouder which generates 
completely unreadable but compilable code. Russ includes his source
code with the package.

Tris Orendorff: dciem!alzabo!tris has an excellent and well-documented
shrouder which scans your include files for keywords and
function names which are not to be shrouded, etc.  However, Tris has 
only released the IBM-PC binaries so far.  Tris's shrouder renames 
variables, type names, and variable names, but does not remove whitespace,
so the output code is a bit easier to read than Russ's, though I found
it adequate for my needs.

These opinions are shareware.  If you like the product,
please send your two cents to:
               David Loewenstern
             <davel@whutt.att.com>
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