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Code-access security is security specific to limiting access to or protecting source code, through the use of processes such as encryption, obfuscation, and more.

Code-access security is security specific to limiting access to or protecting source code, through the use of processes such as , , and more. The goal of code-access security is most often to protect functionality from competitors, to prevent reverse-engineering, or to preserve integrity of program communication protocols.

For more on obfuscation:

Note that security questions which are not about a specific programming problem may be better suited to our sister site, IT Security Stack Exchange.

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Widget Security

I am working on a javascript widget that will allow users to sign-up for a list. This widget will be embeddable on customer websites. Because it is all client-side driven, minus the requests back to the server. I've been trying to come up with ways…
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c# dll encryption

I need to encrypt my C# code used by by ASP.NET pages. So, when I compile to create an DLL file I do need to encrypt my DLL file. Please do help me how to encrypt DLL file...
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Load Assembly with custom Permissions

I need to load an untrusted assembly into my AppDomain. I don't want to Sandbox a new AppDomain for this assembly to execute in, because it internally requires access to certain functionality such as HttpContext.Current (which would be null in a…
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Protecting source code from theft during development

Is there any way to protect my code during development so that if a developer leaves my company they are unable to access files in my project? This is especially important with TFS where the project is downloaded locally, cached, and available for…
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Xamarin.IOS. Code analysis - CA2123

I have Microsoft Extended Correctness Rules rule set for my Xamarin.IOS project. When I analysed I had many troubles: CA2123: Add the following security attribute to BooleanNegationConverter.Convert(object, Type, object, CultureInfo) in order to…
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Testing .NET code in partial trust environments

I want to test the behavior of a certain piece of .NET code in partial trust environments. What's the fastest way to set this up? Feel free to assume that I (and other readers) are total CAS noobs. @Nick: Thanks for the reply. Alas, the tool in…
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How to restrict to add an item to List?

I have Class called Person containing to properties, Father and List of Children. I want every one to use only AddChild Method to add children, not the List.Add method , so how do I restrict use of it? public class Person { private List…
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How can I successfully run secannotate.exe on a library that depends on a Portable Class Library?

I am working on the Autofac project trying to convert all of our common logic into Portable Class Libraries and adding platform-specific libraries for specific functionality. My development machine is Windows 8 Enterprise (64-bit) and I have VS 2012…
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Are there any coding guidelines for the Android platform that focus on security?

Are there any good coding guidelines for the Android platform that focus on security? Thanks
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.NET/Security: Limiting runtime-loaded assemblies from accessing certain APIs

In a shell application, I need to be able to load and execute other .NET assemblies at runtime, but without giving them full trust. Essentially, I want to limit them (the loaded assemblies) from touching any system resources (threading, networking,…
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Sandboxing untrusted code in c#, Security Permissions seem not working

This is my code: System.Security.PermissionSet PS = new System.Security.PermissionSet(PermissionState.None); PS.AddPermission(new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.AllAccess,Path)); PS.AddPermission(new…
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Limiting Access to a DLL in .NET

I write in-house software for a company. I always want to leverage OOP techniques as best as I can. In this thinking, I want to create a Data Access Layer (DAL) isolated in its own .DLL. What can I do to limit the access of the DAL DLL to only my…
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Are there commercially deployed and used .NET CAS (Code Access Security) based applications?

I've seen a couple threads here on SO that ask about what CAS is and how to use it.My specific is specifically focused on real-world usages of CAS. For example: DotNetNuke did some efforts in the past to be able to run under Medium Trust: is that…
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Is it possible to provide security for war file?

I have developed a web application which I am going to sell, but I face some security issues because I am going to provide a .war file to client machines and I found .war files can be easily extracted. How can one provide security for war files to…
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Code Access Security exception in restricted AppDomain

Goal: I need to run some code in an AppDomain with very limited permissions - it should have no access to anything at all fancy or unsafe, except for a few helper methods that I have defined elsewhere. What I've done: I'm creating a sandbox…
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