From: "s.ross" <cwdinfo@...>
Date: 2009-09-12T14:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Password on code - what's the best way to obfuscate it?

On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:08 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> 2) What does "run strings on it" mean?

Dump anything that seems like strings in otherwise binary data.

$ which strings
/usr/bin/strings
$ strings /usr/bin/strings|head
Usage: %s [-] [-a] [-o] [-t format] [-number] [-n number] [[-arch  
<arch_flag>] ...] [--] [file ...]
%.*s
__text
__TEXT
-arch
missing argument(s) to %s option
unknown architecture specification flag: %s %s
missing argument to %s option
invalid decimal number in option: %s %s
invalid argument to option: %s %s
[...]