We are currently running a project in which we wish to reengineer parts of
the System.Security.Cryptography namespace on a unix machine.
We discovered that the implementation of the PasswordDerivedBytes shows some
unexpected results in case the input is a 32 bytes length MD5 hash ...

I host a service called MyService.svc in a private subfolder of my
webapplication like so
/
/private

I have an application compiled under aspnet 1.1.  when I run this under IIS
with asp.net 2.0, users cannot login.  This is because the
GetHashCode()-function returns another value.
Is there a way to fix this?

I am buidling as assembly which logs potentials generated error or exception
in Event viewer.
For that I am through code creating an EventSource for the log before
writing inside.

I need your technical support regarding the WCF service and Proxy server
authentication. Following the scenario.
The remote server returned an unexpected response: (407) Proxy
Authentication Require

I have software that uses the default AES Provider to encrypt text strings.
I now need to allow MAC users to access the documents and be able to decrypt
them.  The encrypted documents were created using whatever default IV byte
array that .NET generates, while the AES code I've ...

I have a user on the network that is now developing in .NET (VC# 2005).  He
can run his projects and compiled exe's locally, however if he tried to run
it from the network he gets security errors.  They change with the type of
project.

Hi, I have a string with a encoded token (encoded with PCKS7 - SHA1 /
RSA).
I have also the certificate with the public key (that theorically will
allow me to decrypt the data).

Is there a way to impersonate to a local account with no password
defined?
My tests were negative until now.
Thanks.

I am able to encrypt <identity> element in web.config.
I use <identity> element  userName (domain\Service account) and password to
make connection to the database. As values in the web.config file are
encrypted

I am trying to encrypt <identity> element in web.config using
aspnet_regiis.exe
Syntax used
C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "identity"

I've been digging around looking for the .Net 2.0 method of signing an
XML document.
 can anyone point me to a simple example, I didn't find much in MSDN
thanks

Just because I just can't remember all those passwords for every site
I need to register for, I thought I'd try my hands on building a
windows exe in C# that I can safely store all that sensitive
information in. Obviously, just for fun, I'd like to try to make it as