MailSite Software Code Protection
MailSite Software protects intellectual property, secures and optimizes applications, and defends against tampering - safely, reliably and efficiently.
MailSite Software, Inc. has been providing secure email, calendar and contact server software for carriers, telecoms, hosting providers, service providers, enterprises and small businesses worldwide since 1995. MailSite Software has more than 2,000 customers hosting more than 15 million mailboxes worldwide. MailSite® Fusion is a messaging and collaboration server that can push email, calendars and contacts over-the-air to iPhone 2.0, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm and Nokia smart-phones. MailSite Software is using Dotfuscator to protect intellectual property and reduce the risk of piracy while serving millions of users across the globe.
The Situation
MailSite Software’s shift away from native C++ libraries towards managed code for ASP.NET web interfaces, web services, and .NET SDKs means significant intellectual property is vulnerable to reverse engineering and disassembly by competitors.
Product functionality
Differentiating functionality required by MailSite includes fine grained control of obfuscation, ability to obfuscate managed C++ binaries, ability to obfuscate multiple binaries at one time and the read obfuscated stack traces for debugging and support purposes.
Product Quality
“We have engineers in three geographic locations with a single centralized build server. Engineers use their development licenses to do unit testing, the build server license produces binaries for release to quality assurance and customers. Support staff use Lucidator to read stack traces.”
“We have never had a bug reported that was the result of transformations done by Dotfuscator.”
Benefits
“To date we are unaware of any successful attempts to reverse engineer our product. One partner who received our SDK said they attempted to disassemble it but were unsuccessful and had to come to us to request more information about particular types. Protecting Intellectual Property insures and protects the value of our application development investments.”
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