Paul Mason: Breaking into obfuscated code

In the last blog post of the "Protecting your precious code" series we allowed our obfuscator to be much smarter in respect to obfuscating public and internal members as well as private members. One thing that was noticeable however was that the strings inside the obfuscated assembly still gave a telling story, as seen in the image below. Today we take a look at breaking into some obfuscated code, and why basic obfuscation is not enough to provide any sort of real obfuscation protection.