c#: I'm in the market for an obfuscator. Any recommendations and rationalle for
chosing one would be greatly appreciated.

Along these lines, some obfuscators reduce the size of the assembly. The
claimed benefit is faster application startup times. Others brag that they
do not reduce size - as the goal of obfuscation is to create as much
confusion as possible; keeping a bunch of unnecessary-but-obfuscated code in
the assembly contributes to more confusion for a would-be decompiler.

Any thoughts, links, articles, specific recommendations, perspective?

Thanks.

Check out: http://www.remotesoft.co

HTH
Tim Stal

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I'm in the market for an obfuscator. Any recommendations and rationalle fo
chosing one would be greatly appreciated

Along these lines, some obfuscators reduce the size of the assembly. Th
claimed benefit is faster application startup times. Others brag that the
do not reduce size - as the goal of obfuscation is to create as muc
confusion as possible; keeping a bunch of unnecessary-but-obfuscated code i
the assembly contributes to more confusion for a would-be decompiler

Any thoughts, links, articles, specific recommendations, perspective

Thanks

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Tim,

I just released a brand new combination Decompiler/Obfuscator product
called Decompiler.NET into the marketplace. It's priced very
reasonably and is the only Decompiler on the market that fully
decompiles and obfuscates itself 100%, and runs after recompilation
without the need for *ANY* manual editing of the generated code. It
also produces very high level readable C# source code often better
than the original code. Additional source language output and language
translation features will be available very soon. You can download a
free trial version from http://www.junglecreatures.com/

Jonathan Pierce
President
Jungle Creatures, Inc.

Look for 9Rays Spices.Net (http://9rays.net/products/spices )- this tool
allows you to investigate all secrets of .Net assemblies nad protect .Net
assemblies from prying eyes.
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Best regards,
Al Ponomarev

Are you replying to someone's question, or just shamelessly plugging your
product on a non-commercial newsgroup?

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Well, in theory it might have been answering someone's question - but
the question was over two weeks old, and from various other posts in
other newsgroups, I get the feeling that Al has basically searched for
posts with "obfuscator" or "obfuscation" in the body, and replied to
all of them with an advert. It certainly doesn't make *me* want to buy
his product - whether it'll convince anyone else or not, I couldn't
say.

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Jon Skeet - <skeet@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet