.Net obfuscation

[RasputinDude]

Any thoughts on whether obfuscation should be used or not?

I ask because PlanB is now being bought by a number of organisations throughout Europe. Up until now, I have been obfuscating it, but the obfuscation is getting to the point where it is causing a problem.

Reading StackOverflow - security - Best .NET obfuscation tools/strategy - Stack Overflow - has caused me to wonder if it is necessary.

Anyone got any thoughts?

[eek]

.Net obfuscation

You live on selling and supporting not on whether people steal your software.

Personally I wouldn't bother

[jmo21]

in what way is it causing a problem?

Performance?

Must be an interesting algorithm if you feel it needs any kind of protection.

[RasputinDude]

n what way is it causing a problem?

I'm not sure at the moment. It's a bit complex - it's been elevated to MS (huzaah for contacts!) and they are calling me on Friday afternoon to go through it.

The algorithm isn't particularly special, to be honest.

I started obfuscating it when the product was in Beta and it was being tested in a few places where I knew the competition also had installations - I wanted to prevent the competitors from seeing what I was doing before it was fully launched. Now that it's out there and the competition have seen it, I'm not convinced that it's necessary.

[SimonMac]

All depends on what you got to hide?! Maybe you've been stealing someone else's code!

[RasputinDude]

All depends on what you got to hide?! Maybe you've been stealing someone else's code!

All mine.