CLR and .NET Security

As Brad has mentioned in his blog, the CLR PM team is doing a series of road trips . The week before last, I was in Phoenix along with two of my fellow CLR PMs for customer visits and the BetaDays event. I'd like to thank all the customers and partners...

Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Mike Downen and I'm the program manager for security on the CLR team. This means I own the security features in the CLR, such as Code Access Security, the crypto-related classes, our integration with ClickOnce...

One topic I'm often asked about is obfuscation of managed code. In the context of software, obfuscation is the process of scrambling the symbols, code, and data of a program to prevent reverse engineering. Optimizing C++ compilers for native code tend...