eazfuscator public members not obfuscated

Question

I'm trying to obfuscate a .net project with eazfuscator.net. The problem is that, when I decompile it using .NET Reflector you can see to much of the code. All the private members are obfuscated, but the public members give to much information about the program.

Is it possible to also obfuscate the public members of my library? I know that this isn't done by the program because the public members are usually accessed from other assemblies. But shouldn't it be possible to obfuscate the whole solution so that those accesses from other assemblies are also renamed from the tool?

I have already tried to use the ObfuscationAttribute

[assembly: Obfuscation(Feature = "Apply to type * when public: renaming", 
                       Exclude = false)]

but it didn't really make any difference.

So is it possible to do something like that with eazfuscator or maybe another tool?

Answer 1

In general, obfuscators will not obfuscate public/protected members.

They do it for a reason, Assume you have a public member in a assembly(lets say a dll). Usually assemblies are created to share code, what if the obfuscator changed the member and class names? How this is going to work when another assembly depends on it?

If at all you want to obfuscate a class, why it is public in first place? You can always make it internal if it is not intended to use outside the assembly.

Obfucsators are good in handling internal types/members. Not only it obfuscates members of the class, it will go one step further to rename the class itself.

You may consider using Phoenix protector . I hope it is configurable to obfuscate public members too.

Update:

One option is to merge all the dependent assemblies to a single giant assembly(exe), then obfuscate the merged assembly with obfuscate public members option. In that way, you can obfuscate public members at the same time not breaking anything.