Private Assemblies & Strong Names??

From: Chris Mohan (ChrisMohan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/13/04

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    Hi, I've signed a private assembly with a strong name and have deployed it in a web app's bin directory. Things work fine, yet I recently read you "can't" do this:

    From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/THCMCh09.asp
    "private assemblies... This type of assembly cannot be strong named. Strong named assemblies used by ASP.NET Web applications must be installed in the global assembly cache. This restriction is necessary because of the internal workings of the multi-application domain worker process."
     
    I wonder if this statement is as literal as the wording suggests or if the author is being bombastic. Could it be that the statment really means: "If you want to re-use your assembly in multiple application domains you need to sign it with a strong name and deploy it to the GAC"?

    The code in my signed assembly sends email; I'm currenlty calling the class directly, but I'd like to use declarative security in order to only allow an inputValidation class to call it directly.

    There are various reasons why I prefer not to install these assemblies in the GAC. Is installing them in the GAC really my only option if I want the assembly to have a strong name(even if I really don't need the strong name)?

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