strong name (n)~ A name that consists of an assembly’s identity-its simple text name version number and culture information (if provided)-strengthened by a public key and a digital signature generated over the assembly. Because the assembly manifest contains file hashes for all the files that constitute the assembly implementation it is sufficient to generate the digital signature over just the one file in the assembly that contains the assembly manifest. Assemblies with the same strong name are expected to be identical. strong password (n)~ A password that cannot be easily guessed or cracked. A strong password is at least eight characters long does not contain all or part of the user’s account name and contains at least three of the four following categories of characters: uppercase characters lowercase characters numbers and symbols found on the keyboard (such as ! @ #).