Obfuscating Java: The most pain for the least gain

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4420 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 96-110

  Batchelder, Michael ^a   Hendren, Laurie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BINARY CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

BYTECODES; DECOMPILATION; SEMANTIC GAPS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 34948902663     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71229-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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