I'm not terribly concerned about looking "cool", I'm simply stating what everyone who's reverse-engineered such obfuscated assemblies knows. These tools simply

I'm not terribly concerned about looking "cool", I'm simply stating what everyone who's reverse-engineered such obfuscated assemblies knows. These tools simply don't protect your code at all. I think it's a travesty that these tools sell as well as they do while doing nothing to hinder reverse-engineering. Edit: For the record, I performed quite a bit of reverse-engineering on Magic: The Gathering Online, which uses SmartAssembly for obfuscation. Despite it being heavily obfuscated, an hour with Mono.Cecil got me a clean binary with placeholder names. That is simply unacceptable.