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Matteo Slaviero Matteo Slaviero
Matteo Slaviero works as Microsoft .NET Framework consultant. He recently started his own company, Cassandra, to develop new products and services related to the world of cryptography (symmetric encryption, digital signature, X509 digital certificates generation and more). . Follow him on Twitter
TLS/SSL and .NET Framework 4.0
by Matteo Slaviero | 28 September 2011 |  2 comments |
The Secure Socket Layer is now essential for the secure exchange of digital data, and is most generally used within the HTTPS protocol. .NET now provides the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to implement secure communications directly. Matteo explains the... Read more...
Customize Automated Error Reporting In SmartAssembly
by Matteo Slaviero | 21 June 2011 |
Despite being, for some time, a keen user of SmartAssembly for the .NET components that he produces, Matteo hadn't discovered the Automated Error Reporting feature until recently. As he reports, it has enabled him to be much quicker and more effective in dealing... Read more...
Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET
by Matteo Slaviero | 30 March 2011 |  3 comments |
If you are providing web-based information for a closed group of users, such as a company or similar organisation with roles and membership, then Windows authentication make a great deal of sense for ASP.NET websites or even .NET applications. Why, and how do you... Read more...
Code Access Security in ASP.NET 4.0
by Matteo Slaviero | 14 September 2010 |  5 comments |
In the third, and final article that introduces Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0, Matteo explains, with examples, how the Level2 Security Transparent Model works within a hosted ASP.NET environment. Read more...
What's New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 - Part 2
by Matteo Slaviero | 13 July 2010 |  3 comments |
Having introduced us to the basics of the new Code Access Security Model available in .NET Framework 4.0, Matteo Slaviero explains how to use this powerful new system to implement fine-grained code security in ways where have never before been possible. Read more...
What's New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 - Part I
by Matteo Slaviero | 15 June 2010 |  5 comments |
The Code Access Security model has been completely redesigned in the .NET Framework 4.0, to the point where CAS policies have been completely removed, and everything now works through Level2 Security Transparency. Confused? Not for long. Matteo Slaviero, a .NET... Read more...
AJAX basics with jQuery in ASP.NET
by Matteo Slaviero | 19 May 2010 |  3 comments |
ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel server control, jQuery offers an alternative, and more versatile, way of doing it and a great deal more besides. Matteo... Read more...
{smartassembly} software for code obfuscation
by Matteo Slaviero | 28 January 2010 |  6 comments |
{smartassembly} is a tool for ensuring that the source code your commercial .NET application isn't visible to anyone with .NET Reflector. Matteo, who writes for us about encryption in .NET, asked if he could write a review of {smartassembly} for Simple-Talk. Because... Read more...
Symmetric Encryption
by Matteo Slaviero | 04 January 2010 |  4 comments |
Cryptography is an increasing requirement for applications, so it is great that it is part of the .NET framework. Matteo builds on his first article that explained Asymmetric Cryptography and Digital Signatures, and tackles Symmetric Encryption and how to... Read more...
Beginning with Digital Signatures in .NET Framework
by Matteo Slaviero | 07 October 2009 |  25 comments |
Digital Signatures aren't the most intuitive software devices to explain, but Matteo boldly gives a quick-start account of Asymmetric Cryptography and Digital Signatures before demonstrating how simple it can be to perform a signature using an X509 certificate and... Read more...
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