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by creshal 1438 days ago
Reverse engineering APIs tends to be surprisingly trivial, even for binary or otherwise non-standard protocols. The content served by them is the only real challenge.
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If asymmetric encryption gets thrown into the mix it becomes much more annoying to get to the point where you can even begin to see the traffic.
There are many things you can do to make reverse engineering more annoying, but the content ultimately reaches the user and somehow you can always mess with that.