What is common between Strong Names, Obfuscation and DRM?

posted by  kevyn (54)  10 months ago (blogs.dotnetthis.com)

(inspired by this article: http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/NeCoder03.asp, where the author shows how to "break" strong names) There is a lot of misconceptions out there related to various security technologies - some people think having a strong name makes their assemblies tamper-proof, some people think obfuscation prevents other people from reverse-engineering their code, some people think DRM prevents everybody from copying protected content. Let me tell you the truth: - Strong Names provide unspoofable unique assembly names, it is not possible to change the assembly and still keep the sa