How does Dotfuscator work on API libraries?
You can still take advantage of renaming your non-public types, methods, and fields. Dotfuscator obfuscation is very configurable in this respect. Dotfuscator has a convenient “Library” option that automatically prevents all public methods from being renamed. If this doesn’t quite fit your application, you can customize the exclusion rules at various levels of granularity. Control flow obfuscation and string encryption also protect code without renaming. TOPWhat is String Encryption? Dotfuscator Professional obfuscation implements runtime decrypted String encryption. As mentioned before, any encryption (or specifically decryption) done at runtime is inherently insecure. That is, a smart hacker can eventually break it, but for Strings present in customer code, we found it worthwhile. Effectively, we apply a simple encryption algorithm (with a twist to thwart decompilers) to any strings in your application you desire.
You can still take advantage of renaming your non-public types, methods, and fields. Dotfuscator obfuscation is very configurable in this respect. Dotfuscator has a convenient “Library” option that automatically prevents all public methods from being renamed. If this doesn’t quite fit your application, you can customize the exclusion rules at various levels of granularity. Control flow obfuscation and string encryption also protect code without renaming.
