Chapter 17. Security

Introduction

Recipe 17.1.  Controlling Access to Types in a Local Assembly

Recipe 17.2.  Encrypting/Decrypting a String

Recipe 17.3.  Encrypting and Decrypting a File

Recipe 17.4.  Cleaning up Cryptography Information

Recipe 17.5.  Verifying that a String Remains Uncorrupted Following Transmission

Recipe 17.6.  Wrapping a String Hash for Ease of Use

Recipe 17.7.  A Better Random Number Generator

Recipe 17.8.  Storing Data Securely

Recipe 17.9.  Making a Security Assert Safe

Recipe 17.10.  Preventing Malicious Modifications to an Assembly

Recipe 17.11.  Verifying That an Assembly Has Been Granted Specific Permissions

Recipe 17.12.  Minimizing the Attack Surface of an Assembly

Recipe 17.13.  Obtaining Security/Audit Information

Recipe 17.14.  Granting/Revoking Access to a File or Registry Key

Recipe 17.15.  Protecting String Data with Secure Strings

Recipe 17.16.  Securing Stream Data

Recipe 17.17.  Encrypting web.config Information

Recipe 17.18.  Obtaining the Full Reason a SecurityException Was Thrown

Recipe 17.19.  Achieving Secure Unicode Encoding

Recipe 17.20.  Obtaining a Safer File Handle