I Need help (Lua Obfuscator)

Ahhh, I see now.

Instead of relying on an instruction pointer, you use control flow to emulate the scripts behavior. Doing this makes the code harder to understand, debug and as you said hook bytecode-level.Then you can use some control flow mutation or whatever they call it these days to make harder/complex obfuscated scripts. This should make people have a harder time to follow how the script works, along with require someone to emulate the scripts behaviour in their head rather than reading it. I like the idea.

@_realnickk

Isn't this kind of optimization similar to luaJIT?

@_realnickk

Ah, I see. I'm pretty sure psu used luaJIT, but I cannot fully recall.

Hm, well I don't really know wat else to say. To be honest I like lua obfuscation and lua in general. I think lua obfuscation is a really good thing to use as learning material. It basically teachs you how to use lua bytecode instructions in lua rather than making a whole other program to do it for you. I might make a thread in hangouts just to talk about lua obfuscation cuz I like the subject (Probably the wrong term to use but eh ^\_('-')_/^ ) a lot.