| Dotfuscator | |
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| Developers | Preemptive Solutions, LLC |
| Initial release | April 2002; 23 years ago (2002-04) |
| Stable release | 6.5.4 / 7 April 2023; 2 years ago (2023-04-07) |
| Operating system | Windows,Linux,MacOS. |
| Type | Code obfuscator |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | www |
Dotfuscator is a tool performing a combination of codeobfuscation,optimization, shrinking, and hardening on.NET,Xamarin andUniversal Windows Platform apps. Ordinarily, .NET executables can easily bereverse engineered by free tools (such as ILSpy, dotPeek and JustDecompile), potentially exposing algorithms andintellectual property (trade secrets), licensing and security mechanisms. Also, code can be run through a debugger and its data inspected. Dotfuscator can make all of these things more difficult.
Dotfuscator was developed by PreEmptive Solutions. A free version of the .NET Obfuscator, called the Dotfuscator Community Edition, is distributed as part of Microsoft'sVisual Studio.[1][2][3][4][5] However, the current version is free for personal, non-commercial use only.
