Obfuscation refers to the concept of concealing the meaning of communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. ...
Obfuscation may be used for other purposes. Doctors have been accused of using jargon to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient. Author and doctor Michael Crichton has claimed that medical writing is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader". [1]. Similarly text-based language, like gyaru-moji and some forms of leet are obfuscated to make them incomprehensible to outsiders. You may have reached this page trying to find the Jargon File A jargon is a type of slang which is used in conjunction with a specific activity, e. ... Michael Crichton Dr. John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942, pronounced )) is an author, film producer and television producer. ... Gyaru-moji (ギャル文字, girls alphabet) is a style of obfuscated Japanese writing popular amongst Japanese school girls. ... The ELinks web browser, set to Leet language, on the Leet language version of Google. ...
Obfuscation serves to increase the difficulty of decompilation, usually forcing someone who wants that information to use more costly forms of reverse engineering.
No obfuscator known today provides any guarantees on the difficulty of reverse engineering, and this seems to be an inherent issue (see for example, this paper).
Thus, obfuscators do not provide security of a level similar to modern encryption schemes, and should probably not be used in cases where security is of high importance.
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