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    copied!<p>I have a desktop application which contains an App.config (program.exe.config at release) with clearly visible elements which define my WCF endpoints and WCF implementation.</p> <p>I would ideally like to hide this from the users eyes, from simple hacking, view and change.</p> <p>Should I: -</p> <ol> <li>Programmatically create and store my WCF endpoints and binding configuration in code. or;</li> <li>Implement some protection scheme over the App.config (if so, what, how), effectively obfuscating/encrypting these elements from public view, but understandable from my code?</li> </ol> <p>I already utilise .NET Reactor to obfuscate and protect my program from reflection techniques.</p> <p><strong>Update 13-May-09 3:32 GMT+10 Alright well I managed to encrypt system.serviceModel but then it proved unusable when the app went to launch as an exception was thrown (System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.ServiceModel.DiagnosticUtility' threw an exception.)</strong></p> <pre><code> &lt;system.serviceModel&gt; &lt;!-- [bindings] --&gt; &lt;bindings configProtectionProvider="DPAPIProtection"&gt; &lt;EncryptedData&gt; &lt;CipherData&gt; &lt;CipherValue&gt;AQAAANCMnd8BFdERjHoAwE/Cl+... </code></pre> <p><strong>So there goes that idea. I'll either ditch this idea, or set my endpoints in code which is behind encryption.<br /> <br /> Isn't anybody else concerned about their endpoint addresses clearly visible in config???</strong></p>
 

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