What is the best .NET obfuscator

[SteamOver]

Hi,

I've tried many .NET obfuscators as a developer and as a cracker.

I think the best one is SmartAssembly, although it's known how to crack its protection scheme.

What do you think? What is the best .NET obfuscator in your opinion?

see you

[bball0002]

DnGuard by far.

[HAY GUYS]

Now that you guys have broken DnGuard in the other thread, what's the best option now?

I'm now finding myself on the other side of the table and have a .NET application for a niche market that I'm going to release in the near future. I don't really know how determined someone will be to crack it, but I can't just leave it completely unprotected. If it can be cracked in 15 minutes with Reflexil, I'm sure it would get passed around eventually.

I know it's futile to protect it from a determined cracker, so what I'm really looking for is something time consuming enough that it won't be worth someone's time to bother.

Any thoughts?

[Kurapica]

same old question :O

same old answer : use smartassembly 4.0 or laterz

should stop most beginners.

[HAY GUYS]

Thanks for the answer, Kurapica. That's what I figured, but it's been a while since I've looked into such things and wanted to make sure!

[bigmouse]

it's better to use obfuscation together with protector.

don't choose whole assembly protection protector, a per method protection protector is enough for most purpose.
such as dnguard pro, maxtocode. although we can get raw ilcode from jithook for this protectors, but to rebuild the method and make full assembly unpacked, still have much work to do. it can prevent most crackers. even i'v write a unpacker for maxtocode, and only have a small problem on unpack dnguard pro now, i still suggest this protectors, they did better than other protectors in the market.
dnguard hvm does a bit better than per method protection. if they improved their encryption, it's still not bad.