[Mono-list] How to protect a mono application from reverse engineering?

[Stéphane C]

Thanks you all for your answers.
AOT'in the app and then removing the IL code sounds like a nice nice tradeoff, I am going to have a deeper look in that direction.
As suggested, I might also consider embedding some parts of our current codebase in C++ for performance reasons (real impact is still to be evaluated and porting them to mono also offers some advantages).

Your help was much appreciated.
Thanks again

> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:42:45 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] How to protect a mono application from reverse engineering?
> From: alan.mcgovern at gmail.com
> To: jonpryor at vt.edu
> CC: skip5500 at hotmail.com; mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> 
> Just to expand on jonathans answer, you can strip all the method
> bodies from your assembly once you AOT. The tool you're looking for is
> 'mono-cil-strip'. It's as simple as AOT'ing your assembly and then
> running: mono-cil-strip in_file out_file. Anyone who decompiles the
> binary will end up seeing a bunch of class names and method names, but
> nothing inside the methods. That should be enough to dissuade all but
> the most dedicated people.
> 

 		 	   		  
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