Skater .NET Obfuscator Ultimate 8.5.0.4
Mitsue Cialella
Obfuscator has been recently refined to prevent deobfuscators. Skater can NOT easily be hacked and deobfuscated by the cotemporary open source deobfuscators. That deciphering hacker's tools definitely do NOT work in renaming class/method/property/field names with the Skater .NET Obfuscator. Strings values are NOT unraveled as well.Main features of Skater .NET Obfuscator Ultimate Edition:
We've been using Skater v. 8.7 for a couple of years now. The product is solid and pretty fast, but my special vote goes to its support, always fast and precise. We surely recommend it for serious .net assemblies obfuscation!
I've been using the Skater .NET obfuscator since August 2015 to secure my commercial C# executables, and even though it's currently just the Standard version (been considering upgrading to the Pro or Ultimate version) I think it does a pretty good job in obfuscating the source code.
As you can see free (Light) edition of the obfuscator offers very limited number of features. For example it doesn't support public member names obfuscation, and thus may not be suitable for you if you require obfuscation of all code blocks.
In my program, it is important that obfuscated names be the same after each build, so that I can find differences in files for minimum upgrade size, otherwise users will have to download all dlls again for even every small upgrade. Is there an obfuscator out there that obfuscates each dll with the same result each time?
My company's Thicket C# and VB.net obfuscators will generate new random names if you obfuscate everthing at once. If you obfuscate incrementally, then there isn't any choice, you have to preserve the obfuscation of already-obfuscated symbols. Our tools do that.
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