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Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation? A: The problem of preventing Java byte-code decompilation is almost ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

In this article I defined a process and an identifiability metric for a software application that can give a developer an idea of how easy or difficult it is to identify bytecode as being derived from ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...