I'm trying to run our .NET 1.1 code on the beta version of .NET 2.0.
Almost everything runs fine, however there's one small issue:
The following code is used to encrypt some data, the Key and IV are
derived with PasswordDeriveBytes. 'salt' is a byte array with length

  This is all about protecting my data in Executable file.
  I have developed a program in Visual Basic .NET 2002. I have many
questions in mind... please help me to complete my project.
  1. I have very much data to be incorporated into the executable file. I

I have built an Windows Service, and I am getting an [Access Denied] error
when I execute the following line.
Dim AcApp As Access.Application = New Access.Application()
The Service is Logged on as a Domain.User.

Im trying to find out if a user belongs to a certain group in our domain. I
used it before and it works fine. Now i want to do the same but with a
groupname that has a white space in the middle of it. for example: DOMAIN\GRP
APP.

I am trying to preclude web clients from reading each others folders and
files on a pulic web hosting server running W2k server. They can read each
others files/folders by using simple .Net script and System.IO FileInfo and
DirectoryInfo classes.

I need to check if the user of the app has IO and Registy rights.  How do I
"Assert" that the current user of a WinForm app has these rights?
Thanks,
John

I've got an ASP.NET application which is impersonating the client and does
some role-based acess control internally. The application doesn't see
changes in role membership made through the Windows Local Users/Group editor
until IIS is reset.  WindowsIdentity is apparently caching ...

I have the following Impersonation code. This code is in C# and I want
to retrieve the data from the SQL server database using the Specified
windows username and password.
public bool ImpersonateUser(string sUsername, string sDomain, string

I am writing a small application for work that connects to a database
(located on the company network) and writes some information. We use AD for
windows auth and I have administrator staus on the domain and my development
machine. The problem lies when I attempt to run the ...

Do I have to do something special in order to suppress the stack walks by my PInvoke or IJW calls?
I plan to operate the .dlls only in a fully trusted environment.
My first guess is to apply the [SuppressUmanagedCodeSecurity] attributes to:
1) my C# wrapper class since they can make ...

I need some help here with security. I have a vb.net program that resides on
remote laptops. When the users log into another application (siebel) on some
server which I do not know anything about that application launches my vb.net
program. The program launches and shows up in ...

I am developing a Web application that uses the Form Authentication.
At one time, I need to launch a new instance of the browser using
javascript.window.open with the correct parameters.
When I run a test outside of authentication everything works fine.  However

I have a question about authorizing access to web service. Is it possible to
restrict access to certain web service based on domain name of a server
requesting that web service.
For example, I have a customers of my web service that have a domain name

I have been trying to use SSPI in validating user credentials in my winform
applications.  I have tried looking around the internet but it doesn't seem
that there are any code samples for wrapping sspi in c#.  Could someone give
me a hand?

On the same machine, I have created two web sites, the first site requires
client cert and is mapped to a windows account.  The second site is
restricted to be called by the first site by limiting the IP address to
localhost.  If I enable windows authentication for the second ...