Howto detect the calling program of a library

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Richard Weigel

Hello,

I have the problem, to protect a library against unauthorized usage.

For realizing this, I want to identify the calling program (path+filename)
to check if it has a digital signature. If it hasn't, the program don't get
access to specific parts of the library (The signature is neccesary, because
the library will handle a security critical area in our product, thats why
passwords etc. are not secure enough)

My question is:
How can my .net library detect, what program created the actual instance
(path and filename)

Thanks for all ideas and advices

Greetings
Richard Weigel
 
* "Richard Weigel said:
How can my .net library detect, what program created the actual instance
(path and filename)
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HI,
You can use the Assembly.getcallingassembly from the System.Reflection
namespace to find out the name of the assembly that called your assembly.

I hope this helps.
Thanks

Anand Balasubramanian
Microsoft, Visual Basic .NET

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