.NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed

Summary

This chapter provided a brief overview of the security services that are available within the .NET Framework. You learned about powerful features that can make your application more secure. You saw how type safety plays a key role in securing your application. You also discovered how to use the two different security models in the .NET Framework: role-based security and code-based security. You learned how to build a custom permission class and how to integrate it with the .NET Framework. You briefly walked through how to use isolated file storage to secure your data.

You also learned how to use some of the classes that are available to encrypt and hash your data. The first application simply showed how to use the cryptography classes ...