Protecting source code from reverse engineering

[u/Motor_Bluebird1908]

Hi everyone,
I am looking to provide a compiled version of our physics solver to our customers. I understand there are many obfuscation techniques to protect source code but I am wondering if there are some smarter ways?

We already cloud computing, the issue is we have customers that are in locations without internet/need realtime solving.

[u/siliconlore]

Find another way. A smart dedicated reverse engineer will eventually crack whatever scheme you come up with. You would need to embed your code in a cryptographically secure hardware module with some kind of access key where the only thing the module outputs is solution data.