C#, MEF - Sign trusted plugins for abuse reduction

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Published on 2010-05-10T09:10:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 9:14 UTC
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Hi there. I have a program that is extendable by plugins using the Microsoft Extensibility Framework. But i dont want untrusted sources to give out plugins that may be insecure. So i want to sign the plugins (maybe with Visual Studio's built in signing) and check if the plugins are trustworthy at program start.

I didn't find a way to check DLL signing from inside C#. And also there is the problem, that I load the plugins with a DirectoryCatalog. There is no way to tell, which plugin is from which file. Anyone knows a way to do this?

Thanks for any help, Marks

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