lua code deobfuscation

Question

I\'ve recently downloaded some lua code and what I found inside was some obfuscated string. That made me wonder what sort of obfuscation technique was used there. Does anybo

Answer 1

Doesn't look encrypted at all. Seems like it's just a sequence of bytes. Each backslash represents a character with its byte code.

27 is escape, 76 is 'L', 117 is 'u', 97 is 'a' and so on.

Running it through a short script gives me this string (symbols are special characters, such as escape, start of heading and null): ←LuaQ ☺♦♦ @ @C:\Users\Alex\Desktop

You can look up the bytes on an ascii table.

Update: A bit of research told me that LuaQ means that it's a precompiled script or something of the sort. I could be way off though.