We developed a COM Wrapper DLL around some code that accesses a Structured
Storage file (starting with a call to StgOpenStorage).  The COM Wrapper DLL
is accessed from an ASP.NET application written in C#.
With our ASP.NET application running on Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP, ...

I have a WinForm app that will run on XP boxes in a Win2003 AD domain named
"GTI.int".  I have several Universal security groups named "ILF_x", one of
which is "ILF_Installer" and I have made myself a member of that group for
development.  There are arrays of security group names ...

I've been looking at google for a method of adding a certificate to the
cert-store from C#. I would prefer something that doesn't popup
dialog-boxes -- but I'll accept just about anything.
I looked at certmgr.exe, but it would be rather sad to have to start

I need to get an array of security groups the current user is a member of.  I
don't care about the builtin groups.  I use an array of windows security
groups the application relies on for internal security to enable menu items,
allow actions, etc. within the application, so I ...

is there any way to clear the buffer of a System.IO.StreamWriter so that it
does not do a flush when it is closed in the finaly block?

 I am writing a simple client-server app and the client sends requests to
the server. The client and server communicate using sockets.
 I want to encrypt the client request using servers public key. This is
what I am currently doing...In the setup program, I created an object of ...

how can protect my source code from decompiler?

I've got the following error:
Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL
Server connection.
In my webconfig file I use:

I'm experiencing something that I am not certain is normal or a problem.  I
have a byte array that, once run through a method that encrypts using Triple
DES, the array now "appears" to be truncated.  By this I mean that the final
three bytes are now showing 0 (zero) in the ...

Is there any security engineering section for windows form in .NET.
There is a security engineering section for web application in msdn
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/tmw
awalkthrough.asp
Can the above section be used for windows form as ...

my ASP .Net application works fine until I have it run under SSL.  When a
remote user wants to write a file or create a folder, the app will throw a
permission error although permission is already given (again, it works with
under regular HTTP protocol).  Does anybody have an ...

please help!
I am trying to use ADAM with ASP.NET 2.0 beta to store users and roles.
I keep getting "The system cannot open the device or file specified.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007006E)"  Any ideas on what this can mean?

Why do code signing authorities refuse to issue certificates to individuals
or open-source projects? Are they seriously saying that organisations like
Enron, Worldcom, etc are more trustworthy than the people who contribute to
GotDotNet? Why do they cost so much?

I have one question regarding the importance of salt in encryption.
As I understand, the salt is used to prevent dictionary attacks. Also,
it is recommended that the salt isn't always the same, and that it
should be randomly generated for each message. This random salt should

Hi, I've already posted this in a different group, but I've received no
reponses...
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I have some load balanced IIS servers, which get content and .NET