Security How-to Topics

The following list includes links to the How-to and Walkthrough topics found in the conceptual documentation for security.

Code Access Security

• How to: Request Permission for a Named Permission Set

• How to: Make APTCA Assemblies Inaccessible to Partially Trusted Code

Role-based Security

• How to: Create a WindowsPrincipal Object

• How to: Create GenericPrincipal and GenericIdentity Objects

• How to: Perform Imperative Security Checks

Cryptographic Services

• How to: Store Asymmetric Keys in a Key Container

• How to: Encrypt XML Elements with Symmetric Keys

• How to: Decrypt XML Elements with Symmetric Keys

• How to: Encrypt XML Elements with Asymmetric Keys

• How to: Decrypt XML Elements with Asymmetric Keys

• How to: Encrypt XML Elements with X.509 Certificates

• How to: Decrypt XML Elements with X.509 Certificates

• How to: Sign XML Documents with Digital Signatures

• How to: Verify the Digital Signatures of XML Documents

• How to: Use Data Protection

• Walkthrough: Creating a Cryptographic Application

• How to: Access Hardware Encryption Devices

Security Policy Management

• How to: Enable Internet Explorer Security Settings for Managed Execution

• How to: Add Custom Permissions to Security Policy

Secure Coding Guidelines

• How to: Run Partially Trusted Code in a Sandbox

See Also

Other Resources

Security in the .NET Framework