Dennis Poon wrote:

On the subject, can the OP simply use UPX to encrypt the executable binary. It won't be secured but no more unsecured than other simple solutions.

I'm the nominal OP, but I raised the question in response to what an (ex-) Delphi programmer was asking elsewhere about obfuscators etc. for .NET which is what he now uses.

He posts: "...particularly database access strings. I realised I had the passwords in plain text, so figured this must be a well-trodden path. Found a thread about it from 2006, with detailed discussion. Struck me as odd that ten years later it isn't automatically solved in Visual Studio."

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