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Obfuscation

Obfuscation is a process for making impossible or at least more difficult accessing the source code of a computer program, either by converting the source code into unreadable but functionally identical one, or by preventing the binary code from being reverse engineered.

As a side effect, obfuscation often also makes the resulting programs smaller.

External links:

Protecting Java Code Via Code Obfuscation (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Research/Students/DouglasLow/obfuscation)

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