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Exactly. If you're running crypto and think getting rid of variable names is going to stop people; it's not. Any off-the-shelf algorithm is usually easy to recognize to an accomplished reverse engineer with a basic background of what kind of things they're looking for.

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Honestly, the modern JavaScript toolchain is better at giving reverse engineers a headache than 80% of binary obfuscators.

As someone who is not very good at JavaScript reverse engineering, I would tend to agree that minifiers are pretty annoying.

So the first thing that I do with one of those is to parse it and convert it to s-expressions. Problem solved.

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