Back to Basic – ASP.NET Runtime Impersonation Today I got a question from one of the developers at my main customer. The question was how to move an uploaded file from an ASP.NET server to a file server on the network. The answer is of course by impersonating. In this post I’ll explain how you can make ASP.NET impersonation and in more details how to make runtime impersonation. Impersonation in ASP.NET When we are doing I/O operations, the operation system makes security checks to understand if the...
Back to Basics – Calculating MD5 Hashing Yesterday I needed to use a hashing algorithm for a given task. I chose to use the MD5 hashing algorithm and in this post I’ll show how to calculate MD5 hash from a given string. What is MD5 Hashing Algorithm? MD5 is a very widely used hashing function that commonly used to check the integrity of files or strings. When using MD5 There is a small possibility of getting two identical hashes to two different strings. It is very useful for storing passwords...