Re: CAN STRONG NAMES BE CRACKED?

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From: Richard (google_at_intermension.com)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: 3 Mar 2004 01:11:52 -0800

> The question then is, how good are strong names? Are they crackable?

Their good enough for many Fortune 500 companies to sign their
products with and continue to feel good about the decision well beyond
the time of deployment.

Rest assured that if they were insecure, people smarter than you or i
will ever be, would have panned the idea many moons ago.

Given that strong names are such such a key component of security and
deployment on the dot net framework, and given that security is an
insanely important topic @ Microsoft these days, you could say in some
ways strong names are good enough for Microsoft to bet the company on
them.

Many things are theoretically crackable - it all comes down to time
and money. But given that both are so scarce, practically speaking,
i'd say No....you would have more chance of becoming President of the
United States, if even the majority didn't vote for you. And we all
know thats so ridiculous it could never happen.... I mean we are
talking about the most democratic country in the world.... right?

;)

Richard

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