Thanks for the info .... I agree that that code obfuscation is of low worth, especially if you keep sensitive code to the server. Nevertheless the client asked for it, so I thought I would investigate a bit.
Best, -Daniel Jim Cheng wrote: > > Daniel Wabyick wrote: > > > Does anyone know of any AS3 code obfuscators out there? > > I don't know of any publicly available obfuscators. But, given the fact > that Adobe has contributed the source code for the AS3 virtual machine > to the the Mozilla community as the Tamarin project, it would not be > very difficult for one to be written. > > Be forewarned, however, there is already a basic AS3 decompiler written > in AS3 available with the sources, and in them lie myriad starting > points for writing bytecode analysis programs in both C++ and AS3 (or > any other language of your choice, if you care to do the porting). > > See: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/> > > http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2007/01/as3-decompiler/ > <http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2007/01/as3-decompiler/> > > Like others have already mentioned, you're best off keeping your highly > sensitive code tightly secured on the server-side. That is to say, you > really shouldn't implement trade secrets or sensitive financial data > encryption algorithms in a SWF. But if you want to make your latest > Flex-based game a little bit harder to steal or cheat at, obfuscation > might at best deter casual thievery and create more busy work for the > truly dedicated. > > That being said, there are still quite a few "very interesting things" > that can now be done given that we've got the Tamarin source code. ;) > > Jim > >
