.NET Security

Is there some way to protect my .NET code from decompilers, besides obfuscation??? thanks! ...

Hi folks ! I am working on an application in dotnet 2.0; receiving a smime message which reads something like ======================================== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: application/x-pkcs7-mime; smime-type=enveloped-data; name="smime.p7m" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 ...

Hi, I wanted a reliable way of detecting if a given NTAccount object represents a user account or group account. I was using SecurityIdentifier.IsAccountSid() method but this doesn't work as I expected. It returns true for user accounts and also for groups created ...

I am running Visual studio 2005 with Version 2.0.50727 of the .NET framework and X509Certificate2UI is missing. my Imports System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates  only shows X509Certificate .... no 2UI Thanks Terry ...

Hi there, I am having trouble getting an ASP.NET web application to connect to another computer and passing the proper credentials and I hope someone can help me. I have a stand-alone Windows 2003 Server, ServerA, running as a Web Server ...

Hi All, I am calling a web service from a console app. It appears that the WS call does not have any credentials and so fails with a 401 error. How do i determine the account my console app is running as? ...

Hi, I'd like to be able to encrypt certain elements of an xml file which i use in one of my applications. I found the following link of the msdn website which looks exactly like what i want to do however i'm getting problems: ...

Ok, so it's not as simple or straightforward as it sounds, but here's what I'm trying to do: I have a web app where the user context is, by default, determined by the user logged on to the machine at the time. (simple)  However, we ...

Hi, I want to be able to retrieve user information on the server of my remoting app...  What I did is the following : I called System.Security.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Token and sent it to the server (via remoting). When I try to recreate the WindowsIdentity using the Token ...

HI All, Could I ask for some help with RSACryptoServiceProvider class. I am trying to write 3 small apps to demonstrate RSA encryption, and giving out a public key as an xml string. One app makes the xml key strings and saves them as ...

Hi, I have a client/server application where the server uses asp.net web services. is there any way I can use code signing, strong names or whaterver to verify the identity of the client code across the web service call? ...

I am having quite the time spawning a process under a different user context.  My preferred method involves using the Windows API functions LogonUser() and CreateProcessAsUser() but I have not figured out a way to overcome several error messages.  I also have the particular problem ...