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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:17 PM

SecureString Redux

A few times over the last couple of days discussion about a tool on the Internet which can attach to your process and dump out the contents of your SecureStrings has come up. If this tool can exist, then what benefit does SecureString really provide?
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:00 PM

Test Signing in Action: IronPython Beta 7

The IronPython team just announced their v1.0 beta 7 release , which is especially interesting to me because they’ve enabled IronPython to be signed with a test key signature. Beta 7 has four configurations, the standard Release and Debug along with Signed
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:00 AM

Adding a UAC Manifest to Managed Code

The UAC feature of Vista is one of my favorite new features -- it really makes running as a non-admin much less painful than it has been in the past. One of the requirements that UAC puts on developers is that we must mark our applications with manifests
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:30 AM

What Do You Want to See in Crypto / ClickOnce?

Now that Whidbey's out the door, it's time to look at what we want to do in future releases. If you've run into any issues with the crypto classes or with ClickOnce let me know! You can leave comments here or file requests in the MSDN Product Feedback
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 11:58 AM

Tour the CLR Security Team

Mike and I have been spending time this week meeting with the Visual Developer Security MVPs -- having plenty of discussion about what we can do in future releases of the framework and how CAS relates to some of the rest of Microsoft's products. It's
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:54 PM

Security and the Papal Election

With the Papal Election only four days away, Bruce Schneier has taken a look at the process from a security standpoint . I found this to be quite an interesting read, since virtually all the information I have about electing a new Pope came from reading
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Monday, November 29, 2004 12:30 PM

An Interesting Take On Two-Factor Authentication

(via Bruce Schneier ) Two banks in New Zealand are introducing an interesting form of two-factor authentication. Looks like anyone who tries to transfer $2,500 or more to a third party bank account via the website will be required to use their new technology.
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