[ivanmontillam]

In fact, there's a company thriving today on obfuscating JS. Recently, I've stumbled upon Jscrambler.

Though truly no software is obscure enough, given enough resources (time and money). All software is open source if you care to look hard!

[js8]

> All software is open source if you care to look hard!

Not really, because open source has a definition and that definition refers to the form that the software was authored in.

In addition, there are homomorphic encryption methods which make it possible to completely obfuscate the SW function, practically speaking. You don't even have to go that far, just look at a typical LLM network.

(As an aside, I think it would be funny if someone implemented a game where Minecraft-like crafting functionality would be implemented through a one-way hash function. So no one could look up the recipes in the source code. Or an adventure game which would hash the input command and the world state to decode the resulting progress.)

[ivanmontillam]

> Not really, because open source has a definition and that definition refers to the form that the software was authored in.

Well, yeah I was referring to reverse engineering it.

> ...which make it possible to completely obfuscate the SW function, practically speaking.

"Practically speaking" is the keyword here. Given enough resources (time and money), anyone with enough skills can find out how any software works and re-implement it, even if the original source code is lost.

The main premise here is that the CPU has to be able to see the instructions to execute them. If the CPU can see them, I, as a reverse engineer, certainly can.

> (As an aside, I think it would be funny if someone implemented a game where Minecraft-like crafting functionality would be implemented through a one-way hash function. So no one could look up the recipes in the source code.)

I like the idea!