Obfuscation Tools

• HashJava
• Neil Aggarwal's Obfuscate and ObfuscatePro
• JOBE - The Java Obfuscator
• HoseMocha
• preEmptive Solutions, Inc's Dash0 Java Obfuscator/Optimizer
• SourceGuard
• Vadim Antonov's CShred C Obfuscator
• KlassMaster
• RetroGuard from Retrologic Systems.
• JCloak from Force5 Software.
• JZipper from VegaTech
• JShrink from Eastridge Technology

Decompilation and Deobfuscation Tools

• oSam deClassify Java Disassembler
• Toba (Java Class files-to-C translator)
• Kimera Disassember
• Mocha Decompiler
• DCC - Cristina Cifuentes' X86-to-C Decompiler
• Visual Basic Decompiler
• WingDis - A Java Decompiler
• REC - Giampiero Caprino's X86-to-C Decompiler
• Decaf - A Java Decompiler (written in Ada)
• OEW - A Java Decompiler (and more)
• SourceAgain
• KlassMaster

Articles on Obfuscation

• Collberg, Thomborson, Low: A Taxonomy of Obfuscating Transformations
• Collberg, Thomborson, Low: Manufacturing Cheap, Resilient, and Stealthy Opaque Constructs (POPL'98)
• Collberg, Thomborson, Low: Breaking Abstractions and Unstructuring Data Structures (ICCL'98)

Articles on Software Watermarking

• Collberg, Thomborson: On the Limits of Software Watermarking (POPL'99)

Articles on Decompilation

• Cristina Cifuentes' Publications
• Todd Proebsting: Decompilation in Java (Does Bytecode Reveal Source?)
• Todd Proebsting: Report on Toba
• Overview of decompilation techniques
• Comparison between various Java decompilers

People Doing Obfuscation/Decompilation

• Neil Aggarwal
• Giampiero Caprino
• Cristina Cifuentes
• Christian Collberg
• Douglas Low
• Todd Proebsting
• Clark Thomborson
• Paul M. Týma
• H. P. Van Vliet (RIP)

WWW Pages on Obfuscation/Decompilation/Reverse Engineering

• Giampiero Caprino's Reverse Engineering Page
• Ir. Marc W.F. Meurrens: "Java Bytecode Engineering and Reverse Engineering"

Usenet Articles on Obfuscation/Decompilation

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