Hello, We are developing a Web based application that provides document handling for medical documents. It allows authorized users to store and retrieve medical documents by using Internet and a Web browser. Since medical documents are involved, security must be very high. We are using...more >>

I have a network socket-based app that will pass a username and password (encrypted). I want to validate that the username and password are valid, then make sure they are in Administrators group? I'm running Framework 1.1 on XP and Server 2003. Thanks. Amil ...more >>

Securing .DLLs from other applications Is there anyway I can ensure that only windows applications that I write in ..NET can call methods in my .NET class libraries? In other words, I don’t want anyone to be able to create an application that can call methods in my ..NET .DLLs, only .NET ...more >>

Hi, I have some .NET 1.1 code where I am using Authorization Manager. The code is adding the Everyone group as a reader to the security store. I am now upgrading this code to .NET 2.0 and I was wondering whether I can do this with incorporated .NET functions instead of calling the Win32 AP...more >>

Encrypted Base64encoded string : amc4bTZYQktPdWc9 From Delphi Base64Decoded From .net : jg8m6XBKOug= Decrypted from .Net : "password" Works fine.. Encrypted Base64encoded string : bjA0dXlkREw= From Delphi Base6...more >>

Hi, I need to run a program from vb.net using different credentials. Shell can't help me... Is there a way to do this ?? Thanks in advance! Rob Smeets...more >>

I have an asp.net web site that is running under a Windows 2003 application pool and the identity is set to a domain account. SQL Server 2000 is running on another machine and the domain account that is running the app pool has access to the database. The call to SQL is generating an error...more >>

I have found a lot of articles explaining how to encrypt configuration strings in ASP.NET 2.0, but none explaining how to do it in Windows Applications. I would like to encrypt the connection strings in an application which I am deploying to multiple customers. The customer enter db-connect...more >>

I'm new to certificates but I've tried the prescribed steps without success. With a simple .Net exe I've done this to use a test certificate: - makecert -sk "ABC" -n "CN=ABC CORP" abc.cer - signtool using UI to specify - abc.exe - Custom signing - select-from-file the abc.cer fil...more >>

Hi, I am using File.GetAccessRules to find the NT-users and groups that have permissions on the object. I need however to find out if a given rule pertains to a user or a group. How can I do that? With rule.IdentityReference I can get the underlying NTAccount object, which - via the Transla...more >>

LDAP authentication fails with the final release version of ASP.Net 2.0 (and Beta 2 also). I suspect it's a legit bug. Any ideas how to report it?? The following code works fine with Framework 1.1 yet fails with 2.0: string strPath = "LDAP://ldap-3.directory.enterprise.mydomain.gov/"; str...more >>

My webdatabase has RSA encrypted Credit Card info which i download to my windows app via a webservice. A dataset in the windows form code then decrypts the data with a private key and displays on the form. I want to create a cached version of the data in xml, therefore the cc data has to be re...more >>

i'm using the CryptoStream to encrypt a bytes array that come from a [unicode] string. from example i saw, the CryptoStream was constructed with a fileStream object that was opened on a new file. this way you don't need to know the encryption block size. but wanting to encrypt the data in mem...more >>

How can I deploy in IE a control that may call "Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) "? I've tried to include my control in a page with <object id="myCtl" classid="WindowsControlLibrary1.dll#WindowsControlLibrary1.UserControl1" > </object> then I have also inserte...more >>