Re: obfuscating / protecting LUA code

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

bert wrote:
> I'm working on a piece of software in LUA that might be part of a 
> commercial application later on (or might become the application by 
> itself, since LUA is so nice...) and I'm trying to find out if there is 
> a good way to protect LUA code from the outside world? Of course I could 
> compile it using luac, but that wouldn't stop somebody from 
> disassembling it and getting the source code?

There's one point that seems to be not mentioned yet - obfuscating names 
of variables. It's not easy to understand non-trivial code as it is, but 
if all the variables look like a137, d86, etc., the cracker's task 
should be much harder to accomplish.

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Shmuel