Enigma

Gradle Plugin - Obfuscator Strings Encryption (Android/Java)

This project is a simple Gradle plugin to help you to encrypt all String values of your Android Java code at the compilation time.

Important: Enigma plugin won't execute if your project is not managed by a SCM tool such as git or SVN.

Recommended: commit your changes before compile your app with Enigma activated

Links:

• Gradle plugin: https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.chrisney.enigma
• Medium story: https://link.medium.com/3NrSPUdl91

How integrate it?

First of all, be sure that a SCM is initialized in your project, such as Git for example:

$ cd /path/of/your/project/
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

build.gradle (project)

buildscript {
  repositories {
    google()
    jcenter()
    // Add Maven repo
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {     
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.2'
    // Add the Enigma classpath
    classpath 'gradle.plugin.chrisney:enigma:1.0.0.8'
  }
}

build.gradle (app)

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

// Add Enigma Plugin
apply plugin: 'com.chrisney.enigma'

// Set Enigma options:
enigma.enabled = true
enigma.injectFakeKeys = true
enigma.ignoredClasses = ["com.my.packagename.MainActivity.java"]

android {
    buildTypes {
        release {
            // Don't forget to enable ProGuard !
            minifyEnabled true
        }
    }
}

Compile your App

During the compilation process, Enigma plugin will:

• Backup all Java files in backup directory enigma-backup
• Parse your code and encrypt all String values for each Java file
• Inject Enigma source code (encryption code)
• Inject fake secrete keys (optional - check enigma.injectFakeKeys option)
• Compile your App (classic process)
• Restore your original Java files

$ ./gradlew assembleRelease

> Task :app:backup
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/MainActivity.java
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/IResponse.java
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/Utils.java
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/ATest.java
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/TestImpl.java
💾 Backup: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/Constants.java

> Task :app:encrypt
🔐 MainActivity.java encrypted
🔐 IResponse.java encrypted
🔐 Utils.java encrypted
🔐 ATest.java encrypted
🔐 TestImpl.java encrypted
🔐 Constants.java encrypted

> Task :app:injectCode
✏️ Add Enigma code

> Task :app:restore
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/proto/helloworld/MainActivity.java
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/IResponse.java
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/Utils.java
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/ATest.java
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/helpers/TestImpl.java
♻️ Restore: /app/src/main/java/com/app/helloworld/Constants.java
🧹 Remove Enigma code: ~/HelloWorld/app/src/main/java/com/app

Options

Bellow the options of Enigma plugin:

• enigma.enabled (true | false) : Enable or disable the string encryption process (default: true)
• enigma.injectFakeKeys (true | false) : if activated, create fake string keys and injected it into your code (default: true)
• enigma.hash (string) : let you define your own encryption key (32 characters recommended)
• enigma.classes (array of strings) : let you defined the only classes to encrypt
• enigma.ignoredClasses (array of strings): define the classes to not encrypt
• enigma.srcJava (string): root path of your JAVA files (default: /app/src/main/java)

Unit Tests

The JAVA parser is unit tested with more than 300 complex JAVA classes:

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Launcher3/+/refs/heads/master/src/com/android/launcher3