I don't like writing obfuscators as they always have issues and don't work correctly and become hard to maintain over time. This is just a simple obfuscator by turning lua code into luajit bytecode then back to lua code.
Output can be really big, especially if you run it more than one time on the output you get from the previous run.
It is not perfect but can waste some time for someone who wants to read your code.
obfuscate(.exe) needs obfuscator.lua/obfuscator-src/obfuscator.lua to run, you feed it input using stdin and it will output the obfuscated code to stdout.
You can pass -n where n is the number of times you want to run the obfuscator on the output. Please don't try to go over 2 as output is already huge just for couple of lines of code. Eg. "-2" will run the obfuscator twice on the output.
A simple print(true) with obfuscation level set to 2 will output around 14k characters.
- Thanks to meepen for his LuaJIT VM I used it as a reference.
- Thanks to tarantool team for their LuaJIT Bytecodes reference that they restored from LuaJIT 2.0.5.
Please don't use this for malicious purposes, this is made for people who want to protect their addons from being stolen.
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