Obfuscation Studio Executive

New software protection product called “Obfuscation Studio" is presented in the paper. Several obfuscating modules that are already implemented are described. Some theoretical data is presented, that shows the potency and effectiveness of described obfuscation methods. “Obfuscation Studio" is being implemented for protecting programs written for .NET platform, but the described methods can also be interesting for other applications.

Authors:

• Siarhei Petryk
• Vyacheslav Yarmolik

Keywords:

• Coupling
• obfuscation
• predicates
• renaming.

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