Adobe AIR Development

[TheDarkIn1978]

@rhgills - since your post i've been in contact with the author of that python script and plan to contribute a UI for the project as soon as possible. if it works out i'll start a new thread when the program is complete - you could all be beta testers , and of course it will remain free.

[Isabella12]

Dcomsoft released a new version SWF Protector 4 for Mac I think It's a good protect for swf files.

[jtegen]

Be prepared to do a lot of testing. The smallest setting adjustment can make a SWF unusable.

[Isabella12]

Why?

[jtegen]

Obfuscation software modifies the source code to make it less readable. the software provides lots of various settings to allow you to control what and how things get changed (variable names, arguments names, function names, selectable files, etc.). In doing so, some settings and combination of settings prevents some aspects or the look of controls to get messed up. One client of ours insist on using this and I spend a considerable amount of time everything works due to settings. It can be very iterative process too (set, save, convert, deploy, test and repeat). In some instances the SWF looks file and runs fine, then you get a report that something does not work when the un-obfuscated SWF works fine. If you are truely concerned about having your SWF accessible, then do it, but for me, it is just not worth the time and trouble with things magically breaking.

[johnhattan]

If you want a real obfuscator, secureSWF is the one. The DComSoft and Amayata products don't do much to the bytecode other than add some nonsense bytes to function headers that trip up decompilers. So they're generally about one version ahead of the decompilers.

secureSWF does actual obfuscation with variable/function renaming, control flow spaghettification, etc. It's more expensive than the other two, but it works.

I haven't tried to pull a .bar or .swf off a Playbook, but it's a pretty trivial process to pull a .apk off an Android and then extract the .swf. And I can confirm that not very many of 'em are obfuscated, as I could decompile 'em easily.

[jtegen]

We use secureSWF and I agree it is one of the better ones, but I am not a fan of it. But do what you need to do...

[Isabella12]

I tested the SWF produced from SWF Protector on 3 popular decompilers and had no luck reverse engineering the files. The protected SWF even crashed 1 of the decompilers. When I opened the SWF in the Flash Player, everything I set up still functioned properly. When testing SWF encryption tools in the past, I’ve found that the encryption breaks my SWF file.