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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Advanced Developers Conference
You can catch me in the next two days at ADC, Rosenheim. I am doing two talks: New security features in .NET 2.0 .NET RBAC and Authorization Manager thanks for attending! the demos I showed in the .NET 2.0 security … Continue reading
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Cloned Machines and the DTC
Yesterday I spent three hours troubleshooting a distributed transaction problem – ASP.NET just gave me a E_FAIL – which was not very helpful. After testing the connection with DTCPing – I got the message that both machines have the same CID value (a GUID … Continue reading
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ASP.NET Authorization Settings
A lot of people have asked me in the past why they need an explicit <deny user=”*” /> at the end of ASP.NET authorization control lists. Let’s demystify that. ASP.NET has a hierarchical configuration system. The root web.config is stored … Continue reading
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Dinis is blogging again
Dinis Cruz, the man behind the .NET branch of OWASP has a new blog – and it looks like he has a lot to say :) http://owasp.net/blogs/dinis_cruz/default.aspx
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IIS6 and Client Certificates
Adding client certificate authentication to a web application can enable some interesting scenarios, e.g. multi-factor authentication (something you have: a certificate / something you know: a password) restrict access to an application to selected hardware where the cert is installed. You … Continue reading
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ShowContexts – another update – I admit it
After finding this issue, I felt like I have to look at the different principals more granularly. It is now showing: authentication & impersonation configuration settings type of Membership and Role provider trust level type of current IPrincipal/IIdentity on Context.User type of current … Continue reading
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Context.User vs. Thread.CurrentPrincipal
The whole .NET authentication/authorization infrastructure is centered around two interfaces: IIdentity (taking care of who the user is – authentication) and IPrincipal (coupling roles with the Identity – used for authorization). The designated place to store that information is Thread.CurrentPrincipal. … Continue reading
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ShowContexts – final update
Hopefully the final update – now it shows: authentication & impersonation configuration settings type of Membership and Role provider type of current IPrincipal/IIdentity on Context.User process identity thread identity (if impersonating) Context.User IIS authentication outcome used by FileAuthorizationModule client certificate … Continue reading
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CrypterPK – RTM Version
Final update – this tool shows how to encrypt/sign files using certificates. Updated to RTM. CrypterPK_RTM.zip (15.45 KB)
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Tracing System.Net
Often, the last secret weapon you have when troubleshooting networked applications is a packet sniffer. If you ever need one, don’t bother looking around, grab a copy of ethereal. But there are also situations where sniffing is not easily possible, … Continue reading
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