Restricting access to Assembly.LoadFrom call within an assembly based on strong names

[surya]

Hi,

I use the Assembly.LoadFrom call in my code to load assemblies dynamically.
This call currently loads both signed and unsigned assemblies.
It now needs to be changed to load only signed assemblies. Again only those
signed assemblies with known public keys need to be loaded.
Is there an easy way to implement this?

Regards
Surya

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Surya,

You aren't going to be able to do this. You are going to have to
implement a load mechanism yourself and then have all of your code go
through that mechanism.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"surya" <su************************@honeywell.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I use the Assembly.LoadFrom call in my code to load assemblies dynamically. This call currently loads both signed and unsigned assemblies.
It now needs to be changed to load only signed assemblies. Again only those signed assemblies with known public keys need to be loaded.
Is there an easy way to implement this?

Regards
Surya

[surya]

Nicholas,

Thanks for the reply.

Can I get the public key of a signed assembly at runtime using the Evidence
of the assembly? This would help in determining whether the assembly can be
trusted.

Regards
Surya

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
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Surya,

You aren't going to be able to do this. You are going to have to
implement a load mechanism yourself and then have all of your code go
through that mechanism.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"surya" <su************************@honeywell.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I use the Assembly.LoadFrom call in my code to load assemblies

dynamically.

This call currently loads both signed and unsigned assemblies.
It now needs to be changed to load only signed assemblies. Again only

those

signed assemblies with known public keys need to be loaded.
Is there an easy way to implement this?

Regards
Surya

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Surya,

You can get this by using the Assembly class instance that represents
the Assembly. The Name property will expose an AssemblyName instance. From
there, you can call the GetPublicKey method on the AssemblyName instance and
get the key.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"surya" <su************************@honeywell.com> wrote in message
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Nicholas,

Thanks for the reply.

Can I get the public key of a signed assembly at runtime using the Evidence of the assembly? This would help in determining whether the assembly can be trusted.

Regards
Surya

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:uG**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Surya,

You aren't going to be able to do this. You are going to have to
implement a load mechanism yourself and then have all of your code go
through that mechanism.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"surya" <su************************@honeywell.com> wrote in message
news:Ou**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi,

I use the Assembly.LoadFrom call in my code to load assemblies

dynamically.

This call currently loads both signed and unsigned assemblies.
It now needs to be changed to load only signed assemblies. Again only

those

signed assemblies with known public keys need to be loaded.
Is there an easy way to implement this?

Regards
Surya