[Mono-list] Security Madness

Matthew Metnetsky met@uberstats.com
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:52:44 -0500


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:43 -0800, Tom Larsen wrote:
> Instead of working to confuse how the assembly runs, you should work 
> towards making the machine that runs it secured.

As the application is distributed, I'm not sure how to secure X client
machines.  However, I certainly agree with you if we could.  Any ideas?
And yes, all communication from within the assembly is encrypted.

> But if you really want to do this, just use well known public/private key 
> technology.  Encrypt the assembly, when the app domain is being created 
> decrypt it into a temporary file and load that assembly instead.

I'll look into that for now.

Thanks!

~ Matthew