Re: how many obfuscate?

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I agree with a lot of the web page you directed me too.

In our case there are several things that we have to protect (database
passwords, proprietary algorithms...)

So for us we have to address the issue or our competitors would gain
things we don't want them too.


~R



In article <MPG.2057fbb214ed3b6e98d942@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
skeet@xxxxxxxxx says...
Dandle <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am posting to the windows forms group because it occurs to me that
ASP.NET projects do not have the risks of code being decompiled like
distributed applications do.

That depends - if the ASP.NET project is bought to be installed on the
customer site, there are similar risks.

Here's my own take on obfuscation:

http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/obfuscation.html


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