Protect your .NET desktop app from being hacked

Why protection matters

• Harder to reverse-engineer;
• Protect intellectual property;
• Prevent tampering;
• Code Flow Obfuscation, the final result are the same but is difficult to understand why code takes some direction;
• Anti-Debug, most obfuscators protect against debug attachers;
• Some obfuscators also optimize your code (remove unuseful metadata, unused code, compression);
• Sign Assemblies (prevent a malicious user replaces an assembly in your program with a different assembly);
• Data transformation, renaming variables, class names, string values…

Strategy

• Sign Assemblies
• Code Obfuscator

Sign Assemblies

This is really important to avoid potential security vulnerabilities in your software.

Strong-name signing gives a software component a globally unique identity, that consists of the assembly’s identity (simple text name, version number, and culture information), plus a public key token and a digital signature.