Is all .NET assembles are vulnerable to decompilation ?

microsoft.public.dotnet.security

1 Nov 2006 5:54 AM

vighnesh

Hi All

Is there anyway to protect .NET assemblies from being decompiled ? As I came
to know that there is a tool called .NET Reflector to decompile the assembly
to Source code. Does this mean all .NET assembles are vulnerable? If not
Please advice, how could we protect from decompilation.a

Thanks in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

1 Nov 2006 12:25 PM

Adam Clauss

"vighnesh" <vighn***@nannacomputers.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> Is there anyway to protect .NET assemblies from being decompiled ? As I
> came to know that there is a tool called .NET Reflector to decompile the
> assembly to Source code. Does this mean all .NET assembles are vulnerable?
> If not Please advice, how could we protect from decompilation.a

The short answer, is yes.

All assemblies can be decompiled, though there are tools you can use to make
it more difficult called "obfuscators". Some are free, some you pay for...
I personally have not used any and cannot make any recommendations. Perhaps
others can.

You could start by checking out:
http://www.google.com/search?q=.net+obfuscator

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2 Nov 2006 6:52 AM

"Hadi Hariri" <>

As Adam mentions, you can use obfuscators. The best one we've found is
XenoCode.

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