Freeware Light Edition of Skater .NET Obfuscator is an obfuscation tool for .NET code protection. The Light Edition is the Free version of Skater .NET Obfuscator. You may use Skater .NET Obfuscator Light Edition, free of charge, to protect your .NET applications for both personal and commercial purposes. Unauthorized access to source code can offer a quick back door into your systems, business processes and revenue streams. Global piracy rate has increased 40% over the past years and nearly $11 billion is lost. This is definitely a clear threat for software producers and thus to global economy. With more than half of million developers with some level of access to .NET reengineering tools providing near instant access to source from any .NET binary, organizations across industries are entrusting on obfuscation to managing these risks. Over the years, several software protection techniques have been developed, code obfuscation is one of them and it is very promising. Code obfuscation is a form of software protection against unauthorized reverse-engineering. Leading functions of any software protection technique can be determined as detection of pirate attempts to decipher or tamper software, protection against such attempts and alteration of software to ensure that it functionality degrades in an undetectable manner if the protection fails. Skater .NET obfuscator performs the deciphering protection by various means that mainly concentrate on making the assembly members" names meaningless, encrypting string values, and including tricking code commands that render disassembled code not recompilable. RustemSoft proposes Skater .NET obfuscator, an obfuscation tool for .NET code protection. It implements all known software protection techniques and obfuscation algorithms. Skater .NET Obfuscator has dual representation as a GUI interface and as a command-line tool as well. Its command-line version running in batch mode is much useful for your scheduled products updates. You have to assign settings for an assembly in GUI version first. Then the batch obfuscation task will use the settings. Skater .NET obfuscator is a .NET code intellectual property protection tool that implements all known software protection techniques to completely protect your .NET apps. RustemSoft .NET Obfuscator is compatible with any .NET framework and offers effective methods of protection against unauthorized reverse-engineering. Main features of Skater .NET Obfuscator: Prohibits reverse engineering; Obfuscated application usually is not recompilable; Processes any .NET application, executable or assembly; Encrypts string constants; Compatible with any .NET framework (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5); Control flow obfuscation stops decompilers and deobfuscators; Scrambles class names, method names, field names etc.; Provides .NET Licensing features Implements assemblies linkage; linker unites .NET assemblies into a single dll or exe.