CodeFort 1.5.1934

Codefort is an intelligent software protection tool, created to help .NET and Silverlight developers deliver their software securely, without risking exposure of their intellectual property. At the same time, Codefort can perform optimizations on the assemblies to increase the performance of your application.

Codefort has unique protection features that you don't find in any other protection product. In the past, when obfuscating an application that relied on XAML code, you needed to manually exclude the members and types that were referenced by the XAML code.
Codefort introduces XAML and BAML obfuscation, which is able to rename references directly in the XAML and BAML code, thus increasing the percentage of members and types that can be obfuscated to nearly 100%.

XAML/BAML Renaming

The XAML/BAML obfuscation makes it possible to rename the referenced type names and member names in the XAML and BAML code, and thus drastically increases the amount of obfuscatable names. Normally, when using other obfuscators on WPF and Silverlight Apps, you have to manually exclude types and members that are used in XAML/BAML. This has two downsides. First, some of the most important classes in your code are left unobfuscated. Second, it requires a lot of manual work from your side. When you use CodeFort, it automatically registers those identifiers, so the obfuscation should work right away, whether you are using the XAML/BAML Obfuscation or not.

Reference Scrambling

Most other obfuscators have no means of protecting references to Type Names, Member Names etc. in external assemblies, such as the system assemblies, because only the user assemblies get obfuscated. With Reference Scrambling, CodeFort decouples the link between the reference source and the reference target, and in this way makes it impossible to follow the reference through browsing of the IL code (or using any decompiler such as Reflection). Moreover, this is done in a highly performance-efficient way, so it will have very little, if any, impact on the performance of your code. The Reference Scrambling has also included Anti-Tampering, which means, that any assembly obfuscated with Reference Scrambling, will not work if it is altered by any post-processing tool or by an attacker.

System requirements

CodeFort obfuscates assemblies built with the .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 4.0 frameworks, or the Silverlight 3.0 or 4.0 frameworks. It does however require the .NET Framework 4.0 to be installed on the computer where you run CodeFort. This should be no problem though, as you can have multiple installations of the .NET Framework installed side-by-side in Windows.