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i’ve got a question, is it possible to identify the creator of a .NET assembly, just with traces from VisualStudio within the assembly ?
Or can you even get a kind of unique ID of the creator out of it?
I don’t mean the application information like company or description, they can be edited too easily.
The answer based on the fact that the code is not strong named or signed is no. Ultiamtely the only way would be to use some kind of public authority isseued certificate based code signing approach. And that is say unequivocally (theft aside) that a particular certificate owner signed the code, not that someone wrote the code.
Into the realms of more conjecture perhaps, if the code was written via a unique compiler, then one could possibly work this out. However I cannot see even this being unequivocal as who ran the compiler etc….