Is there a way that a hacker or someone who wants to copy my software logic, can reverse engineer the business logic that I have in a webservice?
Is there a way to protect such information?
My development platform in .net asp.net and C#
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A:
Binary deployed executables can always be reverse engineered, but the effort to reverse engineer code could be increased by an obscurator.
Here is an example tool: http://www.preemptive.com/products/dotfuscator
There are always ways for a hacker or the user of a webservice to get access to the binary. Here I define the user as the individual you sell your solution to.
A webservice client does not have access to the code unless the server is compromised.
oluies
2010-05-08 21:51:55
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A user of the web service use only the interface and not binary part of your web service. If your web server not safe enough you can place your business logic to the other server on your internal network which is connected through the second network card.
Oleg
2010-05-08 21:59:48
not sure I understand what you mean by "use only the interface and not binary part of your web service" ?
user279521
2010-05-10 03:07:27
I means, that your main part with business logic (typically from bin directory) run on the server only. A client can only send requests to the web server and communicate only with interface part of the web service. So access to the business logic is only through a hacker attack theoretically possible. If you place your business logic on a second server which is not accessibly from the internet you will be receive more security.
Oleg
2010-05-10 07:44:52
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Only if the hacker is somehow able to gain read permission to the bin folder on your web server will they be able to pull down the binary file and reverse engineer it. I agree with Oleg's answer in that if you are really worried about securing the biz logic you should put it on a seperate server and access it through a seperate internal network.
b_richardson
2010-05-16 05:54:38