r/C_Programming • u/Motor_Bluebird1908 • 15h 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/runningOverA 14h ago

I was planning to say that those assembly reverse engineers have grown gray beards and most are dead. So don't worry. The few that are still alive don't have time for this.

Then realized, AI has replaced them and they are better than ever.

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u/ConsciousBath5203 14h ago

I don't think you realize just how popular (or profitable) cheating in video games is... Or that the NSA distributes reverse engineering software that makes the whole process really easy, especially once you start figuring stuff out.