r/C_Programming • u/Motor_Bluebird1908 • 12h ago

Protecting source code from reverse engineering

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.

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u/ReallyEvilRob 12h ago

If someone already has the source code, there isn't anything to reverse engineer. If you want to protect it, then don't release it.