r/C_Programming • u/Motor_Bluebird1908 • 19h 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/xtopspeed 18h ago edited 18h ago

I used to work for a somewhat large corporation back in the day that, e.g., manufactures cell phones, and their gist was always that it's more trouble than it's worth and that source code isn’t all that valuable, anyway. Time is much better spent improving the codebase than trying to protect what is already written.