Skater Light (formerly Skater .NET Obfuscator Freeware Light)

Skater Light is an efficient and easy to handle software solution designed specifically for .NET Framework developers, in the wish to provide them with a reliable assembly protection utility, in order to prevent ill-intended individuals from reverse-engineering their work and using it to their own benefit.

Following a brief installation process, with no noteworthy events to speak of, users can launch the application from the desktop shortcut that it creates and begin working with it.

Skater Light features a simple tabbed interface, which allows users to easily browse and switch between the various sections of the program, namely 'Info', 'Options', 'Public Members', 'Strings', 'Control Flow', 'Linker', 'Licenser' and 'Extension'.

In the 'Info' tab of the tool, users can load the .NET assembly that they want to process. The loaded item's structure can be displayed in tree view mode, allowing users to expand or collapse various nodes. The 'Options' section enables users to set the preferred output folder, the path to the Key file, then set various parameters, such as the 'Obfuscation Scenario', the 'Naming Conventions' or whether to target 'Private Members'.

Moreover, users can obfuscate 'Public Members' as well, by checking each individual item, while also being able to exclude certain objects from the process. User can do this by selecting the members from the left-side panel, which are displayed in a tree view. From the 'Strings' section, users have the option of applying cryptography, with a password of their own devise.

With 'Control Flow', users can prevent decompilers and deobfuscators from being able to unravel the applied protection, by distorting algorithms and adding supplementary instructions. This however, can increase a file's final size. At the same time, external references can be added, as well as licensing settings to determine an app's trial period, for instance.

To summarize, Skater Light is a complex and reliable utility that can successfully assist developers in securing their product of their labor and deter other programmers from gaining access to their code.