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sharptooth
sharptooth

Reputation: 170489

How many .snk files do I need?

Say I have several .NET assemblies and want to sign each of them with a strong name. Is one keypair (one .snk file) enough or do I need to generate one pair for each assembly? Will I have to publish the public key of (each) keypair?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 749

Answers (3)

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 43280

We have (3) .snk files.

One that we use to sign our assemblies, one that was shipped for on-site code generation (we don't need to do that anymore), and mono.snk to sign Mono.Cecil and Mono.Security (these are built here for use with Microsoft's .NET).

Upvotes: 1

Brian Ensink
Brian Ensink

Reputation: 11218

One key file is enough to sign multiple related assemblies. Take a look through your GAC. Assemblies from the same product or platform often all have the same key. For example many of Microsoft's .NET framework assemblies share the same key.

Upvotes: 1

Vadim
Vadim

Reputation: 21704

You need only one .snk file.

You don't need to publish the public key. Any one can get a public key using sn.exe with -p switch.

Upvotes: 5

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