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Nov 4

Upgrade a self-hosted Keyright instance safely: migrations, zero downtime, rollback

#keyright #selfhosting #operations #upgrades

7 min read

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Nov 4

Decompile a single-file or self-contained .NET app with Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #guide #dotnet

6 min read

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Nov 4

Diagnosing a protected .NET build in production: logs, PDBs and stack traces

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #guide

7 min read

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Nov 4

Obfuscating a multi-project .NET solution: one consistent protection strategy

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #guide

9 min read

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Nov 4

Protecting your Keyright activation endpoint from abuse and key-sharing

#keyright #security #operations #selfhosting

7 min read

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Nov 4

Extract and read embedded resources from a .NET assembly with Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #guide #dotnet

7 min read

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Nov 3

Obfuscating a .NET app that uses AutoMapper, MediatR and FluentValidation

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #guide

8 min read

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Nov 3

Building a Nebula keep-list: what to exclude from renaming (and why)

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #guide

8 min read

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Nov 3

Back up and recover a self-hosted Keyright instance

#keyright #selfhosting #operations #disasterrecovery

6 min read

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Nov 3

Run self-hosted Keyright fully air-gapped, with no outbound internet

#keyright #selfhosting #airgapped #security

6 min read

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Nov 3

Understand unfamiliar third-party .NET code with Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #guide #dotnet

6 min read

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Nov 3

See what a .NET assembly depends on and calls with Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #security #dotnet

6 min read

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Nov 3

Obfuscating a .NET Worker Service: protecting a headless background worker

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #workerservice

10 min read

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Nov 3

Running Self-Hosted Keyright Across Multiple Nodes for High Availability

#keyright #selfhosting #highavailability #operations

7 min read

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Nov 3

Diff two versions of a .NET assembly with Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #security #nuget

6 min read

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Nov 3

Did your obfuscation actually work? Check it in Glass.NET

#glassnet #decompiler #obfuscation #nebulanet

5 min read

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Nov 3

A SmartAssembly alternative in 2026

#comparison #dotnet #obfuscation

4 min read

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Nov 3

Migrating from Homegrown License Keys to Keyright Without Breaking Customers

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #guide

7 min read

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Nov 2

Fail-closed licensing in .NET: what your app does when it cannot check

#deepdive #keyright #licensing

6 min read

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Nov 2

Anti-tamper in .NET: making a patched assembly fail on its own terms

#deepdive #nebulanet #antitamper

6 min read

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Nov 2

Decompiling yield return: rebuilding iterator blocks from IL

#deepdive #glassnet #decompilation

6 min read

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Nov 2

Rotating a licensing signing key without breaking the field

#deepdive #keyright #licensing

5 min read

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Nov 1

String encryption in .NET: where the key hides and why it matters

#deepdive #nebulanet #stringencryption

6 min read

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Nov 1

Decompiling async/await: rebuilding the state machine .NET hid from you

#deepdive #glassnet #decompilation

6 min read

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Nov 1

Offline and air-gapped licensing in .NET: validating without a network

#deepdive #keyright #licensing

6 min read

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Nov 1

Control-flow flattening in .NET: turning methods into a dispatcher

#deepdive #nebulanet #controlflow

5 min read

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Oct 22

Decompiling C# expression trees: the lambda that became a tree of factory calls

#glassnet #decompilation #csharp

12 min read

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Oct 21

Obfuscating a type you serialize with Newtonsoft.Json: [JsonProperty] is the contract, and TypeNameHandling''s $type is a landmine

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 21

Decompiling C# string interpolation and interpolated string handlers

#glassnet #decompilation #csharp

9 min read

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Oct 16

Obfuscating code that uses dynamic: the runtime binder looks members up by name, so a renamed property is a RuntimeBinderException

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 16

Site licenses: binding one Keyright key to the customer''s domain instead of a machine, and what that binding can and cannot prove

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

10 min read

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Oct 16

Decompiling nullable value types: int? is a struct, a lifted operator is a HasValue check, and the box that erases Nullable<T>

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 16

Obfuscating a type you serialize with System.Text.Json: [JsonPropertyName] is the contract, the renamed property is not

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 16

What HTTP status does a failed license check deserve? 402, 403, Problem Details, and a header the client can read

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

8 min read

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Oct 16

Decompiling a decimal constant: why 3.14m is not an IL constant, and the [DecimalConstant] attribute that rebuilds it

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 16

Obfuscating a COM-visible .NET assembly: the GUID is the contract, the DispId is the contract, and the class name is the ProgID unless you pin it

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 16

Obfuscating an app that registers itself by convention: assembly-scanning DI binds on type names, so renaming unregisters your services

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

8 min read

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Oct 16

Logging a license check: structured events an operator can read, and never the key itself

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 16

License state as a health check: mapping a Keyright license onto Healthy, Degraded and Unhealthy without restart loops

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 16

Decompiling an array initializer: the values live in a data blob and RuntimeHelpers.InitializeArray is the only clue

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

8 min read

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Oct 15

Obfuscating a PowerShell binary module: the cmdlet name lives in an attribute, but the parameter names are your property names

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 15

One license key, three products: the product claim, suite bundles as entitlements, and the gate that lets a Lite key unlock Pro

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 15

Decompiling volatile: the modreq on the field, the prefix on every access, and the Volatile.Read call that looks the same but is not

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 15

Obfuscating a Roslyn source generator: why the generator renames freely but the attribute and the public constructor are pinned

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 15

Clock skew in license verification: why a brand-new key fails on a slow laptop, and the leeway your verify needs

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

6 min read

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Oct 15

Decompiling default interface methods: a method body inside an interface, the class that never overrode it, and the cast you cannot drop

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

6 min read

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Oct 15

Obfuscating an F# assembly: discriminated unions, the [CompilationMapping] attribute, and what FSharp.Core reflects on

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 15

Renewal nudges that don''t nag: driving "expires in N days" from LicenseKind, not a date in your code

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 15

Decompiling exception filters: the catch (e) when (...) that becomes a filter region and the endfilter that runs it

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 15

Obfuscating readonly structs, in parameters, and ref returns: the modreqs and compiler attributes Nebula must not strip

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

9 min read

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Oct 15

Verifying a Keyright license on Native AOT: no reflection, a trimmed verify path, and the public key as a ReadOnlySpan<byte>

#keyright #licensing #dotnet #deepdive

10 min read

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Oct 15

Decompiling optional and named arguments: default values in the Constant table and the temporaries the compiler emits for reordering

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

10 min read

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Oct 14

Obfuscating virtual and interface members: override chains, explicit implementations, and the MethodImpl table that ties them together

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

10 min read

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Oct 14

Licensing a .NET component library: the developer license, the key that compiles into your customer''s app, and what the end user never sees

#keyright #licensing #dotnet

14 min read

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Oct 14

Decompiling fixed: pinned locals, the null-or-empty array guard, and GetPinnableReference

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

12 min read

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Oct 14

Obfuscating generics: renaming type parameters, and the constraints and reflection that pin the names down

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 14

Choosing a signature algorithm for your license keys: Ed25519, ECDSA and RSA compared

#keyright #licensing #security

10 min read

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Oct 14

Decompiling foreach: the enumerator, the hidden try/finally, and when it is really a for loop

#glassnet #decompilation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 14

Obfuscating enums: why the names survive renaming, and how ToString() and switch leak them

#nebulanet #obfuscation #dotnet #deepdive

7 min read

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Oct 14

Pinning your verification public key: the attacker who just swaps your key for theirs

#keyright #licensing #security

9 min read

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