Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 17:15:39 11/18/02
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Vincent probably wrote about compiling to managed code, i.e. to MSIL. As with Java Virtual Machine it's easy to decompile the byte code into more-or-less source code, restoring all method names, and probably even variable names -- not sure about local variables, but definitely for structure fields. There is lot of companies who sell the Java (and probably C#) obfuscators, who will rename variables, methods, etc., so that restored source will be harder to understand. But Visual C .Net includes normal "native" C and C++ compilers, exactly as previous Visual Studio did. C# and managed C++ were added to the native C/C++, not replaced them. Thanks, Eugene On November 18, 2002 at 19:57:54, Bob Durrett wrote: >On November 18, 2002 at 14:47:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > ><snip> > >>The NET 7.0 no one can use because you can decompile it too well. > ><snip> > >Help! Am I reading this out of context? > >If I purchase a computer with Windows XP and then purchase that compiler, I will >not be able to use it because "you can decompile it too well"??? > >(a) What does that mean? [Decompile? Decompile too well? Decompile WHAT too >well?] Go from listing of maching language instructions back to source code? > >(b) Would anybody be wasting their money by purchasing that computer and >compiler? > >Are you concerned about keeping your source code secret? So that DIEP can be >commercialized but to keep the competition [Fritz] from stealing your ideas? > >I once worked with a team of top-notch ["Cracker Jack"] programmers to obtain a >detailed flow chart from an object program. It took months and then when we had >the flow chart, we were still a long way from understanding the program. A year >later we finally were done. > >If you really want to keep your source code secret, maybe you should program in >machine language to start with. Perhaps there is some sort of "encription" that >would help to make it impossible for anybody to decipher your machine >instructions list. > >Bob D.
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