A SecureString object is a String-type designed for sensitive information.
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Secure way to store and load password in app config
I am trying to figure out a good way to store and load a password in the application configuration of my C# application.
To achieve this I use the BouncyCastle library and the DPAPI from Windows.
To ...
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Hacking a SecureString based on std::basic_string for C++
Inspired by reading "How-to write a password-safe class?", I tried some clever (or dumb-fool) hack to create a widely-useable secure string using the ...
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Converting a SecureString to a byte array
Does it allocates something that hasn't freed? Something that remains in memory? Except result byte array, ofc.
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Password building and verification
I'm building a library for myself to use to store user passwords. The library itself shouldn't do the retrieval of data, but it should provide container classes for the data.
I would like to know ...
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Sharepoint Authentication Helpers
I'm working on a rather large SharePoint project that's going to contain helper classes for a variety of item levels (sites, webs, lists, items, etc').
When writing code I'm expecting that the same ...
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Hashing a SecureString using Cryptography Next Generation
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I needed to calculate the salted hash of a password, where the password is stored as a SecureString. There doesn't seem to be much .NET framework support for SecureString. In particular, none ...
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Adding SecureString support to Lib2GitSharp
A library that I use doesn't support SecureString in its credentials for connecting to GitHub, so I'm submitting a pull request to add it. I know it's not ideal to ...
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SecureString as SqlParameter value without GC concerns
The purpose here is to make it easy to use sensitive data that is already in the form of a SecureString (example) without converting it to a ...
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Passing a password to a viewmodel
I've got a project I've been working on that connect to a file server and writes some data to a text file. In order to do this I added a textbox for the user to type their username and a passwordbox ...
