.NET Security

This is regarding passing WindowsPrincipal from my client to the server; I’m developing a Windows based application in c#. When ever I try to pass WindowsPrincipal object from the client to server it says “Exception ha been throw at target invocation…” ...

when i try to run a C++ .net executable from a network drive hooked to server it throws the following execption SYSTEM.SECUTRITY.POLICY.POLICYEXECPTION. i have tried copying the project in to the network drive and running it from there but it shows the same error...any suggestions!!! ...

I might be going out of my mind but I have been looking at this for hours, and after a lot of smoking and banging my head I think I have solved the problem, and thought someone might be interested. ...

Hello I'm using xml based AzMan (I'm on Win XP) and Active Directory users. I want to be able to know if a user belongs to a certain role from an app. If I'm doing like in the code below, I'm not capable to see in the windows ...

Hello, I have one question regarding the importance of salt in encryption. As I understand, the salt is used to prevent dictionary attacks. Also, it is recommended that the salt isn't always the same, and that it should be randomly generated for each message. This random salt should ...

Hello, I've got a really strange problem; this is the case. I've got a web application that uses windows authentication, other users are not welcome. In IIS I've checked Windows Authenticity and unchecked anonymous acces. When users want to enter the site, the windows dialog popsup as expected and ...

Hi, I am trying to convert this Java code into C#: JAVA: SecretKeySpec systemKey = new SecretKeySpec("TEST KEYTEST KEYTEST KEY".getBytes(), "TripleDES"); Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(DESEDE_ECB_NONE); cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, systemKey); byte[] eac = cipher.doFinal(cardRandom); //CardRandom is a byte-array ...

I'm writing a .NET 2.0 app I want to deploy it in the net. Apparently (due to an "unknow publisher warning" while downloading in the browser) I have to give a strong name to my installer & my components. ...

please help! I am trying to use ADAM with ASP.NET 2.0 beta to store users and roles. I keep getting "The system cannot open the device or file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007006E)"  Any ideas on what this can mean? ...

According to this article it is very easy to break strong names [link] Is there a way other than strong names to secure .Net assemblies Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Vishal ...

Hi, I am using "Forms" based authentication for allowing users to enter "webapplication". is there anyway that I can make "Windows" authentication only? If I go to IIS/defaultwebsite/"webapp" and change directory security properties to Integrated Windows Authentication only, would that work? ...

Hello, I have a web app that uploads files to a file server (different box than the web server).  The application uses NT integrated authentication, but no users should have permissions to the file server. How can I use a fixed domain account to upload the files to the file server ...

Hi! I'm trying to put together a demo for signing/verifying/encrypting/decrypting documents via pkcs #7 in VS2005, as per instructions in [link](en-US,VS.80).aspx The problem I'm getting is that when I call envelopedCms.Decrypt(), the ...

Although I already have an own implementation for pinging remote hosts, I encountered problems which I hoped others may have already solved. The thing is, that all sources I found (including my own) use raw sockets to send ICMP echo requests. A user without administrative privileges does not ...

I need to create and store a public/private key pair in a container.  I'm using RSACryptoServiceProvider to create the keys, store them in the container and retrieve them.  My problem is this:  I need to get the actual ...