Bypassing the Authenticode Signature Check on Startup

posted by  mvrok (14)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

A while back I wrote about the performance penalty of loading an assembly with an Authenticode signature.  The CLR will attempt to verify the signature at load time to generate Publisher evidence for the assembly.  However, by default most applications don't need Publisher evidence.  Standard CAS policy does not rely on the PublisherMembershipCondition, so unless your application will run on a machine with