Application Security Arena

Where is my private key ?

A lot of errors are coming up while working with X509. there is a lot of confusion of where do I need to store the certificate ? where is my private key ? the common error is that developers installs the private key to a location that the program not Read More...

Developing Applications to Use Group Policy

are we at the time when IT pro's will start talking to the dev team about security ? it's seems like now dev teams and IT pro's CAN and hopefully WILL work together. Applications can be developed to take advantage of the most common type of policy setting, Read More...

How to report a bug for WCF, WF and .NET 3

you can effect the way that .NET 3.0 will be. you have three main spots where you can report a bug or even report a wish list. .NET Framework 3.0 WCF: http://connect.Microsoft.com/wcf/Feedback WF: http://connect.Microsoft.com/wf/Feedback Visual studio: Read More...

Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide For Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/disasterrecovery/computer_investigation/default.mspx Read More...

X509 specifications for those who need the low level info.

You might will be interest to read this RFC if you need to develop applications that need to handle encryption. for an example if you have a legacy system (e.g. MF) and you need to write your own low level procedures to handle encryption then this RFC Read More...

February 2007 CTP of Enterprise Library 3.0.

Includes a preview of the new Policy Injection Application Block, and release candidate of all other application blocks. can be downloaded here: http://www.codeplex.com/entlib/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2081 Read More...

WCF Supporting Tokens

The Supporting Tokens sample demonstrates how to add additional tokens to a message that uses WS-Security. The example adds an X.509 binary security token in addition to a username security token. The token is passed in a WS-Security message header from Read More...