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decrypt without key on disk wtih crashed XPpro OS  Replies (1) 8 January 2008
My XPpro crashed and will not boot. moved drive to testbed as 2nd phy disk. EFS encrypted parent folder and all files and sub-folders show in green and cannot be accessed. Can you advise how ...

Server Security event log  Replies (1) 7 January 2008
I am monitoring the security event log on a Windows 2003 server. The specific Event id is 592(Application start). Sometimes I never get a corresponding 593(application stop). Every heard of this h...

I was wondering if I could ask a question  Replies (1) 6 January 2008
HI I was wondering if I could ask a question about the Problem reports and solutions application that comes with Windows Vista Basic. My question is this Do I have to regeister the above software...

Trusted connection problem  Replies (1) 4 January 2008
I have an application that performs an http post to the remote server using SSL. When I run the app on my local machine, I get this error: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establis...

M`I 5.Persecution . why t he se curity service s ...  Replies (1) 2 January 2008
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= why the security. services? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You may ask,. why do I think the "they" referred to are the security services? Is there any ev...

M-I 5`Per secution - harass ment at wor k  Replies (1) 2 January 2008
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= harassment at work. -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Once. I stopped watching television and listening to the radio at the end of 1990, "they" had to find other ways of. c...

M I`5,Persecution , th eir me thods and tactics  Replies (1) 2 January 2008
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= MI5: methods. and tactics -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= They deliberately. set out to harass in a way that would resemble the symptoms of schizophrenia, so....

M'I.5,Persec ution ' w ho kn ows abou t i t?  Replies (1) 1 January 2008
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= who. knows about it? =- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Many people. know, both in the establishment and media, and among the general public. Despite an absence of its tar...

sign and verify using Private key and Cert(Public ...  Replies (1) 1 January 2008
I need help in writing a samll application where 1. How to Retrive Private key and Cert from PFX file in binary form (stream of bytes) 2. Sign a message " Hello" using private key(derived from ...

Using  Replies (1) 27 December 2007
Hi, I am having major problems connecting to a specific SSL-enabled server. This server only allow AES ciphers V3CipherSuites 393837363533323130 V3CipherSuites TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_12...

Issuing Code-signing Certificate with Private Key  Replies (1) 27 December 2007
Hello group, I am issuing a code-signing certificate from an Enterprise CA. I am currently using the Certificate Services' web interface with the code- signing template. There does not seem to...

network share security - mscorlib  Replies (1) 27 December 2007
I have used the caspol tool and tried to set security for the network share but still getting errors containing: "System.Security.Permissions.UIPermission mscorlib" and "System.InvalidOperationE...

Using AES ciphers for initial handshake  Replies (1) 27 December 2007
Hi, I am having major problems connecting to a specific SSL-enabled server. This server only allow AES ciphers V3CipherSuites 393837363533323130 V3CipherSuites TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_12...

Determine if IdentityReference is a Security Group  Replies (1) 25 December 2007
Hi All, I've been trudging through old posts, but can't seem to find an answer. This is the 'Effective Permissions' problem. I've seen a lot of 'You Can't" and "Do it Using PInvoke/Windows API". ...

What is exponent?  Replies (1) 24 December 2007
Hi all, I have been reading up on security and cryptography lately. I *think* I understand the different terms and concepts pretty well (gone through the .Net Security and Cryptography by Peter T...

Overloads Overridable Friend - vb  Replies (1) 24 December 2007
According to MSDN, >>>>>>>>> You should never base the security of your application on a member that is marked with the internal virtual modifier in C# (the Overloads Overridable Friend modifier...

Compiling MSIL to Native Code - bypassing verifica ...  Replies (1) 24 December 2007
Happy Monday to everyone. MSDN says: >>>>>>>>>>>> The runtime relies on the fact that the following statements are true for code that is verifiably type safe: - A reference to a type is stric...

Suite B Patents in commerial software?  Replies (1) 22 December 2007
Hello, I'm looking at developing a secure communications application and I would like to use the latest and greatest technologies, specifically the NSA Suite B of protocols. The 3.0 framework has...

Assembly Permissions & Web App  Replies (1) 21 December 2007
I am experiencing some problems with permissions. The web app uses an assembly which contains pages derived from System.Web.UI.Page, derived WebControls and a few helper classes. This assembly in tu...

Error when try to encrypt connectionstring using a ...  Replies (1) 19 December 2007
I followed this article, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zhhddkxy.aspx My command is: aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/myWebSiteName" -site 711831 -prov "RsaProtectedConfi...

question about PFX ??  Replies (1) 19 December 2007
I need help in writing a samll application where 1. A .PFX file(with Private key and Certifcate) is loaded into memore 2. Retrive Private key and Cert from PFX file in binary form (stream of byt...

Error number: 0x80072EE7  Replies (1) 16 December 2007
how do I fix this so I can get updates...

Security groups, ntfs access lists and active dire ...  Replies (2) 14 December 2007
Hello, our windows service has to create an OU for teams, a sub OU for _groups and create default security groups within this _groups OU for user and management. Next step is to create a few d...

software distribution service 3.0  Replies (1) 14 December 2007
when the windows does system update automatically ....this software distribution service 3.0 does not allow me to go online again..i have to do system restore to get my system to an earlier date t...

Deny logon to Administrator in LOCAL POLICY  Replies (1) 13 December 2007
Hi everyone, By error i deny de logon interactivly to the administrator in my server windows 2000. I try to use the SECEDIT.EXE to edit again the secedit.sdb, without success. Someone can hel...

caspol - how can I allow any executable on the sub ...  Replies (1) 13 December 2007
We are in a initial development stage of our code so we just need to be able to run an executable on a server from the network (subnet). What options do I use with caspol to allow this?...

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password  Replies (1) 12 December 2007
In our ASP.NET 2.0 application, we are using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that comes with ASP.NET 2.0 and following the guidance on using it published by the patterns and practices team on MS...

HMACSHA512 ComputeHash - workstation or OS depend ...  Replies (1) 12 December 2007
Hi, I have a problem with HMACSHA512 ComputeHash fnction. I need to get same result on every computer that runs my software. But I have got different result on two computers (on other 20 resul...

user public key authentication  Replies (7) 11 December 2007
I'm wondering if it is possible to use a public key to authenticate a user. I'm trying to make a program that would allow a user to execute a command by using a public key instead of a password. A...

Getting Internet Explorer Security Settings  Replies (1) 10 December 2007
Hi, I have an application that uses embedded IE windows, which doesn't work if the user has set their IE security settings to high. Is there any way to programmatically obtain the security settings ...

Using the proper account for ServiceProcessInstall ...  Replies (1) 10 December 2007
Using VB.NET with .NET Framework 2.0 I made a windows service with code to move files out of a folder on the computer where the service is installed to a shared folder on another computer on th...

Run app from network share  Replies (1) 10 December 2007
Can somedoby tell me the steps, or perhaps examples, which I have to complete to access .net application on client computer from network shared folder on server computer?? I made a release of m...

WindowsPrincipal.IsInRole throwing exceptions...  Replies (1) 7 December 2007
Hello, here comes the description of the trouble: I try to guard my code by PrincipalPermissionAttribute (but I did also try to call IsInRole directly and even LsaLookupNames2...). When I a...

sudbury  Replies (1) 6 December 2007
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WCF Security - UserName  Replies (1) 5 December 2007
Hi, I have a WCF service which I would like to secure using a username/password kombination. I have added the following code in the config file on the host: ...

C# to vb.net  Replies (2) 4 December 2007
How do I thanslate ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(MyCertValidationCb); to VB 8 -- Arne Garvander Certified ...

Securing app.config / web.config  Replies (2) 4 December 2007
Hi all, I'm developing a web application with VS2005 and I've reached the point where I have do deploy it to some servers and thus secure sensible information stored in the web.config file ... you'r...

Audit Rules  Replies (1) 4 December 2007
Hello, I'm trying to get all audit rules for one file like so: Dim fi As New FileInfo("C:\HostMonitorLog.txt") Dim fs As New FileSecurity Dim typeToGet As Type fs = fi.GetAccessControl() ...

.Net client-side WSH call and Vista  Replies (1) 4 December 2007
I have an inTRAnet web-app that runs fine under XP, but not Vista. The .apsx does a VBscript command which fails to execute: set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell") in order to print without ur...

Setting directory permissions (.NET)  Replies (10) 3 December 2007
Hi, I have a requirement to set, programmatically, permissions on users' home and profile directories when they are created. I've sussed out the majority of them, but am at a loss as how to ac...

Cannot write to event log when web application use ...  Replies (1) 3 December 2007
Hi. I have created a web application. When using authentication mode="Windows", writing to the events log (which I created in a console application that was run as administrator.) works ok. However...

How to validate calling assembly?  Replies (1) 2 December 2007
I'm creating a common .net dll for use by multiple projects (applications). I want to ensure that only my applications (my code) can use the above dlls. Is it possible to sign the dll or place some ...

trust relationship between this workstation and th ...  Replies (1) 2 December 2007
am writing a windows application. Here is a logon windows - using WindowsPrincipal to perform authentication to AD server. The logon part is running okay under Visual Studio debug mode. However, i...

Security Updates  Replies (1) 1 December 2007
I have downloaded the following Security update and installed same OK, but I keep getting offered the same update, how can I stop this keep occuring? Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Servic...

CAPICOM and .NET signedCms.CheckSignature  Replies (2) 29 November 2007
Hello, We have a program which is signing files with CAPICOM. Those signed files (detachted) can't be verified by the .NET classes. I receive "Invalid Signature". When I watch the signedCms.cer...

How to interface to Certificate Authority from C#  Replies (1) 29 November 2007
Hi, I am looking for suggestions / best practices for creating a C# client application that can communicate with a Microsoft Certificate Authority running on a windows 2003 server. The applicat...

x.509 Certificate timeout problem  Replies (1) 29 November 2007
I have recently upgraded my client app to .NET 2.0 to take advantage of the 2.0 framework's enhanced certificate classes. The app polls a web service for information. In the environment that we're...

Permissions to Task Scheduler  Replies (1) 28 November 2007
Hi, I'm trying to create a scheduled tasks from a .Net application (actually a webservice). It runs as Network Service and this account doesn't have rights to create scheduled tasks on the mach...

Unable to copy file to a shared path on remote ser ...  Replies (3) 27 November 2007
Hi all I am trying to copy file from a win2000 server to a shared directory on win2003 server using a COM component. I have used impersonation and it seems to work fine. But i am getting Acc...

c# XmlSignature with xades SignedProperties and Un ...  Replies (1) 27 November 2007
Hi All! I need to make an XmlSignature that contains Object with data that will be signed and some not be signed - to use Xades:SignedProperties and Xades:UnsignedProperties. This is my object str...