.NET Security and Cryptography

Managing Security Policy with Code Groups

Security becomes a major challenge when dealing with mobile code and third-party components. For example, you probably want to restrict macros and assembly components from accessing anything other than the document or application that contains them. You may even want to protect your system from bugs in software from trusted vendors. To handle these situations, CAS allows security policy to be enforced on assemblies according to established rules of code group membership. This means that security decisions can be applied to individual assemblies that are used in combination within an application such that each assembly is treated in a specific and appropriate manner according to the trust level of the ...