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Fixes winsw#152 - Add disclaimer about Strong name security
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oleg-nenashev committed Dec 10, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Starting from WinSW `2.x`, the releases are being hosted on GitHub ([here](https
The project also uses the [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io/index.html) Maven repository as a secondary storage of release files.
Binaries are available [here](http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/releases/com/sun/winsw/winsw/).

The executables in all sources are [strong-named assemblies](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wd40t7ad%28v=vs.110%29.aspx), which are being singed by randomly generated keys.
Do not rely on such strong names for security (as well as on other strong names as it recommended by Microsoft).
They provide a unique identity only.

### Usage

WinSW is being managed by configuration files: [Main XML Configuration file](doc/xmlConfigFile.md) and [EXE Config file](doc/exeConfigFile.md).
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