.NET Security Blog
Introduction to ObjectSpaces
Dino Esposito has written a nice introduction to ObjectSpaces over on MSDN. For those who don't...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/25/2004
Creating a SecurityElement from XML
Most of the .NET security system can be serialized out to XML, and knows how to deserialize itself...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/24/2004
Using the Hashing Transforms (or How Do I Compute a Hash Block by Block)
Occasionally I get asked how to use the hashing algorithms that ship with .NET to get the hash of...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/20/2004
Roundtripping Encrypted Data Through Text
This question comes up every so often on the public newsgroups, so I thought I'd write out an...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/20/2004
MSDN TV Talks about CAS
My first lead at Microsoft, from way back in the summer of 2001 when I was an intern, was featured...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/19/2004
Using XML Encryption With CipherReferences, Part 2 - Remote Data
Earlier this week, I posted about using cipher references to refer to data stored in the same...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/18/2004
Comparison of .NET and Java Security
Denis Piliptchouk has written a four part series comparing .NET and Java security on O'Reilly's...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/18/2004
Using XML Encryption With CipherReferences, Part 1 - Local Data
Most users of encrypted XML will encrypt their data and embed the resulting cipher value directly...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/16/2004
Whidbey Security Presentation from the PDC
Although this is kind of old news, you can check out Sebastian Lange (CLR Security PM) and Ivan...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 02/02/2004
ClickOnce on the .Net Rocks Radio Show
There was quite a bit of discussion about ClickOnce on the .Net Rocks show earlier this week. You...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 01/30/2004
More Secure XML Digital Signatures
I've gotten some comments about my XML Digital Signatures entry, pointing out that since I chose to...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 01/22/2004
ClickOnce Activation Errors on the PDC Whidbey / Longhorn Build
The PDC build of Whidbey and Longhorn do not provide a great mechanism for handling errors in...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 01/19/2004
Moving
The GotDotNet blogs are being frozen, so I'll be moving my blog over to the ASP.Net site. You...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 12/09/2003
XML Encryption in .Net
One of the new features being introduced with the Whidbey version of the .Net framework is XML...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 11/14/2003
ClickOnce and Security
From reading some of my other posts, you can see that most of the information available on ClickOnce...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 11/14/2003
XML Digital Signatures in .Net
The .Net framework has built in support for signing XML files with an XML digital signature. Here's...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 11/12/2003
Custom Security Object Samples
Currently, there are no samples on MSDN for creating custom security objects. However, the...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 11/10/2003
Another ClickOnce Article
Here's another ClickOnce article to come out of the PDC: ClickOnce to Debut in Whidbey. This...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 11/03/2003
New ClickOnce Article on MSDN
MSDN is hosting a sample chapter from Douncan Mackenzie's upcoming book Essential ClickOnce. ...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 10/31/2003
How to provide extra trust for an Internet Explorer hosted assembly
A common scenario for developers is that they create an assembly that is to be hosted by Internet...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 06/26/2003
My application works from my local machine, but throws a SecurityException when I move it to a network share
Programs that run on the CLR use something called code access security (CAS). CAS is different from...
Author: Shawn Farkas - MS Date: 06/20/2003