Is IL2CPP a valid way to obfuscate code?

Hi all,

Is il2CPP a good way to obfuscate game code?

I'm also looking into buying this obfuscator asset.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/obfuscator-48919

Anyone have experience in il2cpp and unity C# code obfuscating?

Thanks!

 

I usually don't even bother with obfuscation in the first place...

But for il2cpp, I wouldn't even bother. I mean the entire point of il2cpp is that it converts IL to C++ and then compileds that to machine code. It's no longer a jit compiled intermediate language, it's straight up machine code for the platform it's compiled for.

I mean sure, there may be separate files within the unity installation package that may list many of the methods/strings by name. But it's not really enough to do a whole lot with.

Personally I'd be more worried about other aspects of my game, like marketing, gameplay, etc before obfucsating code that is getting ran through il2cpp.

 

It'll definitely be harder than a managed optimized assembly.
Honestly though, most of the time developers care too much about obfuscation.

Most of the time it doesn't make sense to steal the complete source code of an application, and if algorithms are "stolen", well... most of the time they're no ground-breaking algorithms and other developers have already implemented the same, similar or even better algorithms.

With all respect for the efforts put into that asset, holy ...
A quick look at that screenshot and the videos were enough... Byte array allocation each frame for string literals which then have to be "decrypted"? I'm not an extreme no-gc-enthusiast, and yes, it's generally not recommended to put stuff like quest texts and other UI texts into source code, but that's definitely a potential risk of wasting performance in a very uncontrolled manner.

 

Off topic, but your games look great !