yGuard 2.0 Released
Posted on July 13, 2006, under Development.
We are proud to announce the availability of yGuard 2.0.
http://www.yworks.com/products/yguard
yGuard is our free bytecode obfuscator that integrates perfectly with the Ant build tool. It can be used to obfuscate jar files and text-resource files accordingly in order to both make decompilation a lot more difficult and decrease download file sizes of your applications.
Version 2.0 makes configuring the obfuscation process easier and uses sophisticated bytecode analysis that allows it to remove unneeded fields, methods, and classes.
Please see the change log for more details:
http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yguard_changes.htm
So for as many advantages that Java brings to the table, the one major set back is that it is easy to reverse engineer. Obfuscation have made it almost impossible to completely reserect the full source code from Java class files. When I was looking at obfuscators’ a couple months back, yGuard was at the top of the list. I did not end up going with yGuard because it lack string encryption, which I am disappointed to see still has not made it in the product. Still, yGuard is the best free Java obfuscator on the market these days.
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