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Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:59 AM

Bridging the Gap Between Transparent and Critical Code

Last time we looked at the set of operations that can only be performed by security critical code . One interesting observation is that just because you are doing one of these operations does not mean that your method in and of itself is security sensitive.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:38 AM

Transparency 101: Basic Transparency Rules

One of the biggest changes in the .NET 4 security model is a move toward security transparency as a primary security enforcement mechanism of the platform. As you'll recall, we introduced security transparency in the v2 release of .NET as more of an audit
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:30 PM

CLR 4 Security on Channel 9

A while back I did an interview with Charles Torre   about the changes to security in CLR v4, and he posted it to the Channel 9 videos site yesterday. I start out talking about the security policy changes I've been covering here over the last week,
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:20 AM

Transparency and Member Visibility

Before PDC we were talking a bit about security transparency, namely what it is and how to use it . We learned the restrictions placed on transparent code which prevents it from elevating the permissions of the call stack, namely: Transparent code cannot
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Friday, September 09, 2005 9:40 AM

Marking Your Code Transparent

Last week I discussed the concepts of security transparency and security critical code. Now it's time to get into the how-to's Marking an Entire Assembly Critical This is by far the easiest of the operations ... just do nothing [:D]. By default, all assemblies
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:04 PM

When the Opposite of Transparent isn't Opaque

When you provide an assembly that will be called by partially trusted callers, you need to make sure that you do a thorough security audit of that assembly -- especially if it’s an APTCA assembly. One of the primary reasons this security review is required
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