Can I encrypt an assembly (using AES/DES) and deploy? I simply don’t want people to use Reflector to view the code of my assembly.
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Can I encrypt an assembly (using AES/DES) and deploy? I simply don’t want people to use Reflector to view the code of my assembly.
Unless you are going to use reflection to load the assembly manually, after it’s been unencrypted, no. It will still have to live in unencrypted mode in memory, and any memory dump will be able to get it. You can obfuscate it, which makes reflector mostly useless. What’s the real worry behind this?