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From: "Dmitry Bely" <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Class runtime representation
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:19:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90823c940712100919o39bd152cr34bf9f2ed6f5a4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071210155101.GA20671@furbychan.cocan.org>

On Dec 10, 2007 6:51 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

> > Thanks for the detailed explanation. I don't like method names in the
> > binary because they show some implementation details that I would like
> > to hide; several extra bytes of code are really not a problem.
>
> I suppose you could preprocess the source to mangle method names,

Writing such "obfuscator" may be non-trivial.. I tend to think that
modifying Ocaml compiler can be simpler.

> but
> to be honest if you're worried about the security of the binary from
> reverse engineering I'm afraid that you'll need to consider a lot more
> than just mangling.

Not that I worry about reverse engineering too much, but my manager is
not very happy to see human-readable method names in the binary (I
spent enough time to get a permission to code anything in Ocaml; I
don't like to lose it eventually)

- Dmitry Bely


      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-10 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 13:59 Dmitry Bely
2007-12-07 14:36 ` [Caml-list] " Till Varoquaux
2007-12-07 15:16   ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-08 13:36 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-12-10 14:00   ` Dmitry Bely
2007-12-10 15:51     ` Richard Jones
2007-12-10 17:19       ` Dmitry Bely [this message]

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