[Full-disclosure] Obfuscated patches

Pedro fractalg at highspeedweb.net
Tue Apr 21 12:01:02 BST 2009


Hello,

If it's a patch why do you need to obfuscate ? Patch the binary and bindiff
it :)

If you are talking about starting to obfuscate the resulting binaries,
that's a dark way to go... Waste of cpu cycles, compatibility problems, etc
etc etc...

Pedro


On 4/21/09 11:08, "Dennis Yurichev" <dennis at conus.info> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Just curious: will we see one day obfuscated patches
> (in a manner of obfuscated code) to make reverse engineer's
> (who would like to create exploits after security patches out)
> work harder?
> 





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