yck1509/confuserex

ConfuserEx is a protection tool for .NET applications, the kind of software that runs on Windows using Microsoft's .NET framework. Its purpose is to make it harder for other people to reverse-engineer your compiled application, read its code, or tamper with how it works. The tool works by transforming the compiled output of a .NET program before you distribute it. It supports several categories of protection. Symbol renaming changes the internal names of classes, methods, and variables into meaningless strings so that anyone who opens the file in a decompiler sees garbled identifiers instead of your original code structure. Control flow obfuscation scrambles the logical order of the code so that following its execution path becomes much harder to trace. Method encryption wraps individual functions so they cannot be read or modified at rest. Resource and constant encryption covers strings and other embedded values. There are also protections against debuggers, profilers, and memory dumping tools that analysts use to inspect running programs. Additional features include reference hiding through proxy methods, the ability to embed dependencies so they cannot be extracted separately, output compression, and a plugin API that lets developers extend the tool's behavior. ConfuserEx supports .NET Framework versions from 2.0 through 4.5 and also handles WPF and BAML projects, which use a particular UI technology within the .NET ecosystem. It is used from the command line by pointing it at a project file that describes what to protect and how. The project file format is documented separately in the repository. An important note from the maintainer: this project is discontinued and no longer actively maintained. The README links to a GitHub issue listing actively developed forks for anyone who needs ongoing support.