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.NET Security and Cryptography
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.NET Security and Cryptography

by Peter Thorsteinson, G. Gnana Arun Ganesh
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 59m
English
Pearson
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Chapter Eight. .NET Code Access Security

Traditionally, security models have been purely logon-oriented and process-centric. This approach on its own is not sufficiently flexible for dealing with the new component-oriented world of mobile code. Code Access Security (CAS) deals with this new challenge by layering a flexible component-oriented security model over the user-based security model provided by the operating system.

Chapter 7 introduced the first part of the .NET security story, but we focused only on user-based security techniques. In this chapter we continue our study of .NET security programming by investigating its other major aspect, known as CAS. In contrast to user-based security, CAS allows you to restrict actions based on certain ...

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