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This is fascinating, my mind is immediately drawn to simple obfuscation programs that would turn tabs into spaces and change the formatting and so on, while sti
by click170 12y ago
This is fascinating, my mind is immediately drawn to simple obfuscation programs that would turn tabs into spaces and change the formatting and so on, while still leaving it syntactically correct. Not obfuscation such as to hide the purpose of the code, just the identity of the author.
Does anyone know of any such projects, or what they might be described as? None of the queries I've tried produce the intended results.
You could even take it one step further, if you can identify the author of source code, can you not then forge that signature to make it look like they wrote something they didn't?
- userbinator 12y agoDoes anyone know of any such projects, or what they might be described as? None of the queries I've tried produce the intended results. I guess it's because you're looking for "obfuscators" while such programs are usually known as "automatic code formatters"... and any decent IDE is going to have the functionality to do this. For something standalone, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_(Unix) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_(Unix)
- palunon 12y agoOr astyle for more versatile standalone formatter (and it's frequently the one used by IDEs)...