Published: 12 Nov 2024

This is definitely a clear threat for software producers and thus to global economy.
Global piracy rate has increased 40% over the past years and nearly $11 billion is lost. Unauthorized access to source code can offer a quick back entrance into your systems, business processes and revenue streams. 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.

If a maximum level of code protection is not required for your assembly, you may want to consider disabling this feature to minimize your output executable code size.This obfuscating essentially converts assembly method implementations into "spaghetti code", making interpretation by human hackers and decompiler tools much more difficult.
Actually Control Flow obfuscation involves the insertion of additional instructions. Applying of this feature increases the size of the output assembly. The Control Flow obfuscation algorithm distorts and reorders the IL code in the assembly, inserting bait branch instructions while preserving code semantics. Control Flow obfuscation intended to stop decompilers and deobfuscators from functioning correctly.
Control Flow obfuscation subdues reverse engineering by scrambling .NET methods (functions and procedures) code.