Get the public key of the calling assembly

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Ed C. - 20 May 2004 02:21 GMT

Hello all
I want to make sure that methods calling a cryptographic assembly of mine have been written by an authorized individual. My plan is to sign assemblies with my public / private key pair (sn.exe). So I want to be able to call the GetPublicKey() method of the AssemblyName class in the System.Reflection namespace. Where I am stuck is how to get the assembly information of the caller

Thanks all.

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Rob Teixeira [MVP] - 20 May 2004 04:51 GMT

Dim an As AssemblyName
Dim pubKey As Byte()
an = AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName([Assembly].GetCallingAssembly().Location)
pubKey = an.GetPublicKey()

-Rob Teixeira [MVP]

> Hello all,
> I want to make sure that methods calling a cryptographic assembly of mine have been written by an authorized individual. My plan is to sign

assemblies with my public / private key pair (sn.exe). So I want to be able
to call the GetPublicKey() method of the AssemblyName class in the
System.Reflection namespace. Where I am stuck is how to get the assembly
information of the caller.

> Thanks all.

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