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Don’t rely on Obfuscation
16 August 2007 in Programming & Security | Comments (0)

With the now common use of managed code, unlike native code, the application can be easily decompiled to its source code. Most times that’s not something you want happening to your code.

Obfuscation is a very common “solution” used by many projects. Although it not protects your code from being decompiled, it makes very hard for understanding the logic behind the code. But, similar to others protection techniques, this method has its weaknesses.

I recently found this large post describing in detail why obfuscation shouldn’t be relied to save the application from being reverse engineering. Although its using C#/.NET to demonstrate, this is also reproducible with other managed code like Java.

If you need to protect your code from being altered, I think the combination of a good obfuscator with signing the assembly with a Strong name. Even if this method is not perfect, it can really be a big delay when attacking your application.

Compiling [Comic]
16 August 2007 in Fun | Comments (0)

via xkcd.com

The Code Project Browser Add-in for VS 2005
16 August 2007 in Programming & Software | Comments (0)

The great people from SlickEdit have created this add-in to let you integrate the very very large collection of samples directly from Code Project just inside your VS.

You can just download the installer, but the sources is also available, as usual in CP.

You will need a registered account on Code Project, so you can logging inside the IDE and allow the add-in to establish its own session with the portal.

Besides a new toolbar with some features, including direct project download and favorites list, it simplifies the process of downloading, saving and opening the samples.

XNA Game Studio 2.0 just released
14 August 2007 in Microsoft | Comments (0)

The new version of Microsoft XNA Game Studio just got announced at the XNA Gamerfest 2007. The new 2.0 version comes with new multiplayer support (over Xbox LIVE), better audio editor, support for all VS.NET versions, and several others tweaks and features.

The download should be publicly available soon.

Webcast: Securing .NET code
10 August 2007 in Microsoft & Security | Comments (0)

MSP Mark Rasmussen has made avaiable a webcast about Securing .NET code.