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Shelby Robertson 5-Dec-13 7:21
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Dan Neely5-Dec-13 8:41
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I, my boss, and the customer the app is for are all aware that obfuscation is breakable. What they want is to make reverse engineering non-trivial, and want the difficulty to be closer to disassembling a native binary (what we'd've used if the paranoia requirement had came at the start instead of several years into the project) than pressing an easy button. The output of SmartAgent and de4dot as viewed in ILSpy or dotPeak is still vile enough to not be human intelligible without a lot of work. Reverse engineering the algorithms by feeding hundreds of test datasets to see what comes out would probably be less painful; and that's as much as we can hope for since the software is going on ordinary PCs not heavily tamper hardened boxes (and even there only a small number of wipe at first sign of trouble boxes would be likely to stop a sufficiently skilled adversary).
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