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Nikita is a Flash developer from Israel who has been involved in Flash since 2006. He's especially interested in game development, and likes to do crazy experiments with Flash.
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How the ActionScript Virtual Machine Works

How the ActionScript Virtual Machine Works

Nikita Leshenko on Apr 7th 2011 with 7 comments

If you are involved with AS3 development you might have heard of a virtual machine that lives inside the Flash Player or of the so-called bytecode that your code gets transformed into. But what are they exactly?

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Protect Your Flash Files From Decompilers by Using Encryption

Protect Your Flash Files From Decompilers by Using Encryption

Nikita Leshenko on Feb 11th 2011 with 76 comments

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in February, 2010.

In this tutorial I will demonstrate a technique I use to protect code and assets from theft.

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