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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C obfuscator
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Date: 19 Jul 90 02:03:49 GMT
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davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern) writes

>I am looking for a program (or emacs macro) which will translate
>C code into unreadable but functionally equivalent code.  At minimum,
>it must replace all variable names with cryptic names such as a1, i23, etc.
>Ideally, it should also rename functions.  Further obfuscation isn't really
>necessary for my purposes, but wouldn't hurt either.

A long time since the original posting, perhaps, but there is currently
just such a beast posted in comp.sources.misc.  I have pulled it down
and looked at the sample files (which are indeed opaque!) but have
not actually compiled it.

Anyway, around here a code obfuscator would be redundant!  :-)

Tom Rombouts  Torrance Techie  tomr@ashtate.A-T.com  V: (213) 538-7108