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Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation?

Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for creating and modifying Java classes during the runtime of a Java ...

Java has a lot of different ways to represent a stream of bytes. Depending on the author and age of a library, it might use byte ...

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