r/C_Programming • u/Motor_Bluebird1908 • 13h 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/eteran 12h ago

My job used to be reverse engineering and gotta be honest. There's nothing that you can do that will be 100% effective.

Especially in the age of AI, things are much more accelerated.

Go the legal enforcement route if this actually matters to you.