DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 - page 9

Getting started 9
© 2009 TallApplications BV
2 Getting started
This chapter will help you to get started with DeepSea Obfuscator 2009. The concepts of
DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 will be explaned and a walkthrough of DeepSea Obfuscator
2009's of your first obfuscation is presented.
The following topics are included in this chapter:
Ø Concepts
Ø Your First Obfuscation
Ø Your Second Obfuscation
Ø Adding obfuscation features
Ø Obfuscation projects
Ø Reading obfuscated stack traces
Ø Where to go from here
2.1 Concepts
DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 is typically invoked during the last stages of your build
process. It takes compiled and fully linked assemblies and converts them into obfuscated
assemblies.
DeepSea Obfuscator 2009 performs a series of conversions on each assembly. These
conversions preserve the function implemented in the assembly, but make it much harder
to understand and retrieve the original sources. For example compare these before and
after views of a simple assembly.