Obfuscation – how to do it and how to crack it
Victor DeMarines · Network Security · 2008
Code obfuscation and other software protection techniques have long been used by software vendors to protect software intellectual property (IP). In the world of anti-piracy, an arms race has emerged pitting protection vendors against skilled reverse engineers and crackers. Protection vendors develop innovative approaches to deter the cracking of licensing and DRM schemes that enables piracy.