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Monday, February 28, 2005 5:12 PM

The Difference Between the Strong Name Hash and Hash Evidence

The System.Security.Policy.Hash class allows you to make security decisions based upon the hash of an assembly using the HashMembershipCondition . That sounds awfully similar to how strong names are calculated ... According to ECMA partition II section
Posted by shawnfa | 5 Comments
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:11 PM

Finding the Raw Strong Name Signature

Wow ... there's been lots of interest in signatures lately :-) In response to my last post about reserving a larger section of the PE file for the signature when you create a signature with a larger key, William wants to know if you can extract the actual
Posted by shawnfa | 5 Comments
Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:38 PM

SafeHandle

Prior to Whidbey, interop with Win32 handles was done by passing IntPtrs back and forth through P/Invoke. This had several drawbacks including: Lack of type safety. Nothing is preventing me from taking an IntPtr containing a HWND and passing it to a method
Posted by shawnfa | 11 Comments
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:35 PM

What's the Deal with the ECMA Key?

The libraries laid out in the ECMA spec are all signed with a public key that looks pretty strange. If you ildasm mscorlib.dll, System.dll, or any of the other framework libraries that are defined in the ECMA specs (see partition IV: Library if you're
Posted by shawnfa | 3 Comments
 
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