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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:32 AM

Combining Strong Names with Authenticode

If you want to use both a strong name and Authenticode signature on your assembly (for instance if you need a strong name for strong assembly identity, and your company has a rule requiring Authenticode signatures on all shipped products), then you need
Posted by shawnfa | 6 Comments
Monday, April 03, 2006 2:44 PM

What Happens When You Fully Sign a Test Signed Assembly

When an assembly is test signed , the public key used to verify its signature is different from the public key that makes up part of the assembly identity. So what happens when you take an assembly which is registered as a test signed assembly on your
Posted by shawnfa | 3 Comments
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
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
Monday, June 07, 2004 2:52 PM

Checking For A Valid Strong Name Signature

Recently a question came up from someone who was trying to have a plugin architecture for their application, but wanted to do some checks before loading a plugin. Specifically, they wanted to ensure that the plugin was signed with a specific public key.
Posted by shawnfa | 8 Comments
 
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