Generation
A CIL assembly and instructions are generated by either a compiler or a utility called the IL Assembler (ILASM) that is shipped with the execution environment.
Assembled IL can also be disassembled into code again using the IL Disassembler (ILDASM). There are other tools such as .NET Reflector that can decompile IL into a high-level language (e.g. C# or Visual Basic). This makes IL a very easy target for reverse engineering. This trait is shared with Java bytecode. However, there are tools that can obfuscate the code, and do it so that the code cannot be easily readable but still be runnable.
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