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Sounds dubious, do you have a citation? The disassembly looks very straightforward for a lot of Windows code.

• sedatk 5mo ago
  They're not encoded, but the code blocks are shuffled. That's why disassembly does look straightforward, but it used to thwart BinDiff at the time.
  • dataflow 5mo ago
    What made you believe this is the case? any examples/links/etc.?
    • sedatk 5mo ago
      It was a part of our Windows build process when I was at Microsoft. I only assumed that they would keep doing it, but they might have as well dropped the practice.
      • cstdr 5mo ago
        I don't see how that can be useful when Microsoft publishes debug symbols for almost everything.
  • j16sdiz 5mo ago
    If I understand correctly, that is just randomness comes from parallel compiling and linking. If you saying there is a whole step just scrambling blobs, i will be very surprised.
  • shakna 5mo ago
    That sounds a lot like US9116712, but I don't think its ever been publicly said that Windows does this.