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A comment on Lua Devirtualization.

Re:Lua Devirtualization by pansa2 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:59AM (#30475939)
What’s “devirtualization” in this context?
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Re:Lua Devirtualization by yuchi on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:04AM (#30475961)
I think it’s the wrong term completely. This is old school deobfuscation.
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Re:Lua Devirtualization by anonymoushn on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:05AM (#30475967)
The obfuscated code appears to implement a lua VM in lua and run the obfuscator's user's code in that. "devirtualization" here means removing that layer.
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Re:Lua Devirtualization by stevemk14ebr on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:10AM (#30477234)
A VM based obfuscation scheme is known as virtualized. Defeating the VM and restoring the original code is called devirtualizing
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