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Publisher Class

.NET Framework 4

Provides the Authenticode X.509v3 digital signature of a code assembly as evidence for policy evaluation. This class cannot be inherited.

System.Object
  System.Security.Policy.EvidenceBase
    System.Security.Policy.Publisher

Namespace:  System.Security.Policy
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
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[SerializableAttribute]
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
public sealed class Publisher : EvidenceBase, 
	IIdentityPermissionFactory

The Publisher type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method Publisher Initializes a new instance of the Publisher class with the Authenticode X.509v3 certificate containing the publisher's public key.
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  Name Description
Public property Certificate Gets the publisher's Authenticode X.509v3 certificate.
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  Name Description
Public method Clone Creates a new object that is a copy of the current instance. (Overrides EvidenceBase.Clone().)
Public method Copy Creates an equivalent copy of the Publisher.
Public method CreateIdentityPermission Creates an identity permission that corresponds to the current instance of the Publisher class.
Public method Equals Compares the current Publisher to the specified object for equivalence. (Overrides Object.Equals(Object).)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Gets the hash code of the current Certificate. (Overrides Object.GetHashCode().)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string representation of the current Publisher. (Overrides Object.ToString().)
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The presence of Publisher evidence produces a PublisherIdentityPermission in the grant set. If there is a Demand for PublisherIdentityPermission, the PublisherIdentityPermission that corresponds to the Publisher evidence will be compared with the demanded permission.

Publisher evidence is based on Authenticode X.509v3 signatures.

By default, code access security (CAS) does not check for Publisher evidence. Unless your computer has a custom code group based on the PublisherMembershipCondition class, you can improve performance by bypassing Authenticode signature verification. This is accomplished by configuring the runtime to not provide Publisher evidence for CAS. For more information about how to configure this option and which applications can use it, see the <generatePublisherEvidence> element.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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