This document contains only a brief description of cobfusc. For a more complete documentation, please
read the Info file or the Texinfo manual.
The cobfusc utility converts the input file, written in the C language, into a human unreadable one, but
compilable. The main work is converting every identifier into a meaningless one, removing any comment
and compacting all the white-spaces when they are not required.
The options are as follows:
-A Enable a heavy obfuscation for the source file. This is equivalent to the -ademt-inumeric
options. The digraphize option is not enabled by default since the Amendement 1 (1994) changes
to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) are supported only by few C compilers.
-a Garble every string with octal escapes.
-b Enable the digraphize mode.
-cno | lower | upper | screw | random
Set the identifier case obfuscation mode.
-d Compact the macros removing backslashes and white-spaces when they are not required.
-e Compact the white-spaces when they are not required.
-fsuffix
Put the output of each processed file in a separate file with suffix appended to file name
instead of standard output. This is useful when processing a package with a lot of source files.
-gfile
Add first the identifiers contained in file to the obfuscation table. Useful when those
identifiers are shared between two or more source files.
-ino | numeric | word | random
Set the identifier obfuscation mode.
-m Strip the comments.
-n Garble integers with expressions.
-ofile
Set the output destination to file.
-pprefix
Specify the prefix to use when generating the identifiers.
-rfile
Tell cobfusc that the identifiers contained in file must not be obfuscated.
-sseed
Specify the seed for generating the random numbers.
-t Enable the trigraphize mode.
-u Dump the symbol table to file.
-V Print version information on standard output then exit.
-w Set the width limit of the output.
-x Exclusive mode; obfuscate only the identifiers specified by the -g and -z parameters.
-zfile
Add the identifiers pairs contained in file to the obfuscation table.