Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Is Strong Named Assembly Really Secure?

2002-05-18 Thread Brent E. Rector
Why repeatedly check the integrity of a shared assembly on each load? It's a waste of cycles. Only an admin can subvert this protection. The Runtime always checks the integrity of a private assembly that contains a strong name. It takes only a minute to check this. Create a strongly named assembl

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Is Strong Named Assembly Really Secure?

2002-05-18 Thread Brent E. Rector
You have to run as the Administrator to write to the directories containing the GAC, An Administrator can do anything s/he wants already, such as install software as part of the operating system. -- Brent Rector, .NET Wise Owl Demeanor for .NET - an obfuscation utility http://www.wiseowl.com/Prod