This morning, an article caught my attention -- "Managing the insider threat through code obfuscation", http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1736253
The article's premise is that, because attackers can find out a great deal about the internals of databases and such by decompiling bytecode (in Java and .NET), bytecode should be obfuscated to hide its internal details. The article points to several commercial bytecode obfuscation products: http://www.devdirect.com/ALL/OBFUSCATIORS_PCAT_2014.aspx I hadn't heard of this approach before, although I'm quite familiar with how easy it is to decompile Java bytecode. My questions for the group are: o Anyone here have any good/bad experiences with bytecode obfuscation? o What is the impact on performance of the bytecode? o How about compatibility with various JVMs? o How much protection do these obfuscators really provide? o Is this all just a bunch of product marketing hooey? Well, at least the article uses the term "threat" correctly... Cheers, Ken van Wyk --- KRvW Associates, LLC http://www.KRvW.com _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php
