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.NET Framework Security
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.NET Framework Security

by Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin, Kevin T. Price
April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Security and the Developer

What do we mean when we refer to “secure code?” In essence, the ultimate purpose of security is to allow “good” code to execute while denying access to “bad” code. Unfortunately, there are no algorithms that let us differentiate “good” code from “bad.” Suppose, for example, that a request is made to append data to a file. Is this an attempt to inject a virus, or is it merely new output being added to some log file?

No security system can judge the intent behind such an action; even humans sometimes have difficulty discerning the true purpose of a piece of code. Instead, the security system concentrates on evidence about the user or code that it knows is factual or can be validated: usernames validated by passwords, ...

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