[Mono-list] Security Madness

[peter]

Matthew Metnetsky wrote:

>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.
>  
>
This may be a silly question Matthew, and I'm not entirely sure I 
understand exactly what your code is doing (e.g. is it authenticating 
users?  what technology is it using for authentication?), so please 
forgive me if I'm way off beam.

If your app is distributed, isn't it the server code that wants 
protecting?  The client code should surely expose no more than the 
metadata for the proxy, shouldn't it?

On the server, can't you use code access security (along with file 
permissions and all the other stuff that admins do) to protect the 
server code?

I'm new to mono, by the way.  In fact I've barely got it installed, but 
I do write .NET distributed applications on Windows for my bread and butter.

If this helps at all and you want any more info, please contact me.

Cheers

Peter