Re: IL Code Security

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:29:15 -0000

Tim Mulholland <Mulholland.NoSpam@alumni.virginia.edu> wrote:

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> Basically, i'm curious to find out what others think about all this, and
> what others are doing in their own workplaces. I'm big on C#/.NET and i'd
> love to get the company moving to as much of this as possible, but i don't
> know where to go from here.

Sorry to weigh in late on this issue - I've been away.

Like the others, I'd consider obfuscation "good enough". As a test, why
not obfuscate your app and then get someone with some .NET experience
to try to reverse engineer it to get the specific algorithm?

Frankly, most algorithms are going to be easier to recreate than to
reverse engineer - people aren't usually paying for algorithms these
days, they're paying for the design around them, and how they're
integrated and packaged together. 

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