I completely agree. Obfuscation and encryption are definitely not the
same thing. I'm just referring to how Amayeta labels their tool "SWF
Encrypt" even though it's just an obfuscater. But I guess "SWF
Obfuscate" wouldn't have quite the same ring to it ;)

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:52 AM, chris duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think the terms "obfuscation" and"encryption" should used
> interchangeably. "Obfuscation" is just a technique to make the decompiled
> code more difficult to read and in some cases cannot be immediately
> recompiled. It in no way protects the library data in an FLA. "Encryption"
> (to me) would prevent a user from even opening a SWF except from a
> predetermined password or method. Such as I use encryption for XML based
> data to get it into my application which at runtime its decrypted for
> display/processing.

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