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PreEmptive Solutions Announces Dotfuscator Professional Version 1.2

Leading Provider of Obfuscation Tools Adds New Features Focusing on Ease of Use; Additional Support for Managed C++ Code and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework

 

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PreEmptive Solutions, a leading provider of advanced obfuscation tools for Microsoft .NET applications, giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction, today announced the release of Dotfuscator Professional Edition version 1.2. The newest version extends its current abilities and allows customers to produce the most secure and efficient applications built for the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Dotfuscator Professional Edition is designed to provide even greater protection and to create the most compact and efficient .NET Framework-based applications, including strong code protection and size reduction with advanced features such as Control Flow Obfuscation, Pruning, String Encryption, Enhanced Overload Induction and Incremental Obfuscation.

"As soon as a software program gets released, hackers and competitors are swarming over it with the latest code analysis tools," said Pete Lindstrom, research director for Spire Security, LLC. "Obfuscation can put a quick end to their ability to succeed, thus strengthening security and protecting the intellectual property."

New benefits and features in version 1.2 include: 

  • Ease of use: The command line interface has been extended in order to allow obfuscation from the command line without having to create a configuration file. 

  • Support for managed C++ code. 

  • Full support for obfuscating and pruning applications built for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. 

  • New renaming schemes: Choose from several predefined renaming schemes (including unprintable) that can create even more problems for decompilers 

  • Additional protection against reverse engineering: Dotfuscator Professional Edition is able to insert invalid metadata to your application that will break current versions of ildasm (the disassembler that ships with the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK). The runtime does not use this metadata, but when the disassembler tries to read the invalid metadata, it will crash. 

  • Localization: Easier to obfuscate localized applications 

  • Dotfuscator Professional Edition automatically discovers satellite resource DLLs using the same rules that the runtime uses and automatically adds them as inputs to the obfuscation process.

"As a market leader of obfuscation and efficiency improving tools for Microsoft .NET-based applications, we are committed to ongoing product innovation and development, as well as superior customer satisfaction," says Gabriel Torok, president of PreEmptive Solutions. "The latest version of Dotfuscator Professional adds many important features requested by our customers."

"This tool contains technology that helps developers protect their intellectual property from decompilation or reverse engineering attempts on .NET Framework-based applications," said David Lazar, director for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Protecting applications is extremely important to developers, and Dotfuscator Professional Edition is a valuable solution to customers."

In addition, PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Community Edition, a lite version of Dotfuscator, is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. By providing obfuscation tools in the box, PreEmptive and Microsoft provide developers with an extra layer of protection against reverse engineering, or decompilation.

Availability:
PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Professional Edition is available immediately directly from PreEmptive at www.preemptive.com

 

 

About PreEmptive Solutions:
Founded in 1995, PreEmptive Solutions is the leading provider of advanced Java and .NET obfuscation tools giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction. PreEmptive's DotfuscatorTM and DashOTM Family of Products help secure and improve the efficiency of .NET and Java code. For further information, visit www.preemptive.com or call 216-732-5895.

Press Contact:
Sebastian Holst
SVP, Sales and Marketing
PreEmptive Solutions
Direct +1 440 484 2243
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