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1 Introduction
The DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 User Guide provides an overview of DeepSea Obfuscator
2009 and provides step-by-step instructions for the most commonly used procedures.
The following topics are included in this chapter:
Ø About DeepSea Obfuscator 2009
Ø About This Guide
Ø Staying Up To Date
Ø Getting More Help
1.1 About DeepSea Obfuscator 2009
DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 protects your your intellectual property by obfuscating your .
NET assemblies. Obfuscation makes it (much) harder for unauthorized personnel to obtain
your intellectual property.
For example compare these before and after views of a simple assembly.
The following is a brief overview of some of DeepSea Obfuscator 2009's features:
Ø Out of the box protection - Just run DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 and your .NET
assemblies are protected.
Ø Assembly merging – Merge assemblies for easier deployment.
Ø Declarative obfuscation - Integrate your obfuscation settings where they are
most appropriate: in your source code.
Ø Fast - Finally a developer tool that makes optimal use of your multicore CPU for
optimal performance.
Ø Build tooling friendly - DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 comes with VisualStudio,
MSBuild, NAnt and command line integrations.
Ø Developer oriented license model - Licensed per user account, install on as
many PC's as needed. It is no longer needed to perform obfuscation only on a build
server.