obfuscation

[Guest]

How important is to use obfuscation on an asp.net application dll?

or i guess what i'm asking is:

On a machine that is not compromised how secure are web.config and the 'bin'
folder?

Thanks.

 

[Karl Seguin]

So far there've been no holes to allow such access in IIS 6.0 or ASP.Net.
I'd be more worried about people getting access through the O/S, but a well
patched 2000/3 machine should do well. Obfuscation would obviously help if
you were paranoid about someone getting access to the DLL, but it's mostly
used when you are shipping a product to a client. I wouldn't worry too much
about it unless. Of course, I don't own any of the applications I write
Considering how easy obfuscating code can be, it might be worth the small
investment if you have a paranoid boss.

Karl