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US 7,117,371 B1Granted
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSrivatsan Parthasarathy, Steven J. Pratschner, Craig T. Sinclair
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSrivatsan Parthasarathy, Steven J. Pratschner, Craig T. Sinclair
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A system and method is provided for providing security to components or assemblies employed by application programs during runtime. The present invention employs digital signature keys to ensure that an assembly name that is published is unique because the assembly is published with a publisher's public key. This prevents others from publishing an updated version of an assembly that claims to be published from the same publisher. The present invention guarantees name uniqueness and prevents name spoofing because the original publisher is the only one with the private key matching the public key related to a published assembly. Due to the fact that the public keys are stored in each reference, the caller can be assured that the assembly that the caller is binding to at runtime comes from the same publisher that owns the private key.
A method for facilitating a secured name space for an assembly employable by application programs during runtime, comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium having at least one computer executable component employable by an application program at runtime comprising:
A system for facilitating secured name spaces of assemblies employable by application programs at runtime, the system comprising:
A system for facilitating a secured name space of an assembly employable by application programs at runtime, the system comprising:
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