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Kris Kumar
12-05-2005, 05:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/12/03/486860.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/12/03/486860.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"There's a good description of the trust levels in Windows CE at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wceosdev5/html/wce50concreateatrustedenvironment.asp">this</a> MSDN page, so for this post I'll discuss how the security policies in Windows Mobile 2005 affect what trust level an application will get. ... You can use the configuration XML files supplied with the emulator in Visual Studio 2005 to experiment with how your application will behave in the various policy configurations. Jason Fuller wrote a great <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/wmsecurity.asp">white paper</a> about this and it goes into much more detail than this post does."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-Dec05-SecurityPolicies.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><i>Figure 1: Summary of the table showing the standard security configurations, from this <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/wmsecurity.asp">article.</a></i><br /><br />Scott Yost over at the Windows Mobile Team Blog has explained in simple words the security policies supported by the Windows Mobile platform and how it affects the application we want to run our devices. For a more detailed explanation, check out Jason Fuller's <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/wmsecurity.asp">article</a> on MSDN.