All the advice thus far given is good, however just to add my .04wassits. Before you look at the how, look at the what. Code obfiscation can be easily catagorised, there are various simple techniques. Judicious use of pack, (as has already been mentioned) using alternative substitution operators, using the ^? variables ;-) What is hard is comming up with the idea.. the what... If you look at other peoples japhs first you will (no matter how hard you try) reproduce what they have done. I would first of all sit down with a cup of java and try and work out what your japh is all about. To illustrate, a collegue of mine frankus wrote a cool japh a while ago based upon the rot algorithm. He stored a string and rotted it to produce the kick. Now the algorithm was obfiscated and he stuck some other nasties in there but the idea was simple. Get your idea first, then look at other japhs to see how to implement it in a -nasty- way.

enjoy I look forward to seeing the result. --

Zigster

In reply to Re: Lost in a sea of obfuscation... by zigster
in thread Lost in a sea of obfuscation... by r.joseph

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