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Obfuscating code

Good day folks

we're in the process of releasing an application to the web. now we need obfuscate our code. we know there are many tools on the web and also a dotfuscator community edition integrated in VS.NET 2008. We already played with a few of these tools, but we never got a really good and satisfying result. lately we found out, that reflector.net itself is fuscated in way, that code is nearly unreadable. so, how did redgate or lutz roeder fuscate reflector.net? with a tool? or with specific settings using dotfuscator?

thanks for you replies

Christian
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  • haleyjason
    I'm not a gambling man, but if I was I would bet Lutz used Dotfuscator (the DotfuscatorAttribute is added to the Reflector.exe).

    Dotfuscator is one of the best I've looked at (only looked at three), there is a mode that will set the strings to a unicode range that is unreadable on most machines ... in my opinion that is what makes Reflector so hard to pick a part.

    I have a feeling Lutz also uses a few other tricks that makes it even harder but I honestly don't know.
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  • haleyjason
    I forgot to mention, I have some general obfuscation information on my site at http://jasonhaley.com/obfuscation/ which you might be interested in.
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