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userbinatortoday at 5:51 AM1 replyview on HN

This "encryption" was arguably never for any security anyway, just obfuscation.


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anilakartoday at 6:55 AM

Any crypto that prevents casual tinkering is enough to keep most companies from wasting resources on reverse engineering stuff.

Back in the day we wrote a simple byte-level nonce + delta obfuscator for a terrible Node-RED-like programming environment so that we could tick a "must not be human-readable" requirements checkbox.

If the cryptography, proper or not, has been written for DRM purposes, no legal department is going to permit digging into implementation details even with a ten feet pole.