>
> I see. I don't think that would be a suitable alternative to obfuscation.
>
> For one thing, it requires a great deal more effort. Second, it puts the 
> burden on the client to run the decryption on their machine (every time they 
> access the swf). Finally, since you must provide the client with the key, you 
> haven't really protected anything, you've just added one extra step.
>

effective solution require effort in general

you can protect the key too
simple example: if the SWF run within AIR you can use the encrypted storage
to save the key but without exposing it in the source code that could
be generated from decompilation
but yes you're right is much more difficult to put in place,
hence why you see very few people doing it right

it's not just an extra step that is useless, with encryption done right
you can have your encryption algorithm source code exposed on the wild
and your crypted file still stays secure

the only thing I was saying is that depending on your use case
obfuscation is not the end-all be-all , encryption is there too,
as steganography, etc.

zwetan

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