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December 2005 - Posts

Monday, December 19, 2005 8:49 AM

Happy Holidays

It's that time of year again when most of the offices around Microsoft start going dark, and I'll be adding 42/2221 to that list for the next couple of weeks as I head off to New York for Christmas. My traditional weather.com check shows that I should
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:30 AM

What Do You Want to See in Crypto / ClickOnce?

Now that Whidbey's out the door, it's time to look at what we want to do in future releases. If you've run into any issues with the crypto classes or with ClickOnce let me know! You can leave comments here or file requests in the MSDN Product Feedback
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:00 AM

New and Improved Security in the .NET Framework 2.0

To add to our other lists of "What's New in Whidbey Security", Rudolph Araujo and Shanit Gupta have a nice roundup of new security features posted on the Microsoft .NET Framework Developer Center. They've got them categorized, summarized, and provide
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:00 AM

Process Requires FullTrust

The Process class has a LinkDemand and an InheritenceDemand for FullTrust on it. This means that if your assembly is not fully trusted, it will be unable to kick off new Processes or get information about running processes. One implication is that assemblies
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:00 AM

Authenticode and Assemblies

The general concepts of Authenticode signing an assembly are well understood -- they mostly correlate directly to the standard Win32 concept of a signed catalog. However, there are a few places where managed code plays differently, and sometimes these
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Monday, December 12, 2005 9:38 AM

A Look at the Xbox 360 CPU Design

Jeffery Brown has posted his paper on the Xbox 360 CPU Design from the Fall Processor Forum over on IBM's DeveloperWorks. Since I have my degree in hardware design , I always find these types of things interesting. While this paper is at a relatively
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Monday, December 05, 2005 9:32 AM

CryptEncrypt and RSACryptoServiceProvider::Encrypt

The RSACryptoServiceProvider class provides two methods, Encrypt and Decrypt which seem to be the managed counterparts to CAPI's CryptEncrypt and CryptDecrypt functions. However, if you try to encrypt using CAPI and decrypt using managed code, you'll
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