.NET Security

I'm looking for information on how to programmatically validate a client certificate. I found this article [link] but it stops short in describing how to actually validate the cert. HttpClientCertificate cert = Request.ClientCertificate; ...

Hello all, It seems that digitally signing XML documents using the SignedXml class has a bug - or at least a behavior I cannot explain. The problem occurs when I sign XML documents containing namespace prefixes and namespace references and then validate it. The validation always fails ...

Hi, I have similar problem to this thread (and I want the same thing - I wanted to check the user role of a given user name) -> [link] ...

I have VS 2003 on my laptop and want to keep it, but I need to do a re-install on my laptop of windows XP, I have registered the software but can no longer find the CD because I moved to another state in June.  I need to ...

I want to pass a string password in System.Diagnostics.Process.Start. The problem is that the defined password parameter is SecureString not string while my password is string. Normal casting evaluates to errors. Please how to cast string to SecureString? ...

Hi my webserver is running .Net 1.1 and intermitently i get the following error. Does anyone out there have any idea why this happens? And how i can try and start solving the problem. Most of the time the ...

when my C# service impersonates a secondary account does the secondary account need any special permissions? what are they? ...

Dear all, I am using framework 1.1 I try to add 2 security atributes to a component class but not able to do it based on syntax mistake that I could not find out. Applying one atribute is ok but more is a trouble... ...

Is there anyway to encrypt the connection string using an algorithm which is FIPS 140-2 certified, and then store the key in a FIPS 140-2 certified hardware store? We know that DPAPI doesn't do that. We also know that RSAENH ...