Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I want to encrypt a string and save it to disk in an encrpyted format. To do this I’ll have to place the shared secret somewhere in source code. How easy is it for the user to then extract this when the program is running?
It’s not the end of the world if they do but I’d prefer it if they can’t see this string.
I’m using c# .net
Its Child’s Play.Have you heard about Reflector.Its a Software that reads the ILCode and generates the source code.Getting the secret from the source code is like a walk in the park.
You can use the following security measures
Obfuscating your code with String Encryption
Adding a custom installer action to store the secret encrypted using system specific key(DPAPI) in the app.config file
Any method whatever be it, is not 100% crack proof.If you give the Executable publicly it can be reversed