Strong Key is a naming convention used in computer programming. There can be more than one component (eg: DLL) with the same naming, but with different versions. This can lead to many conflicts. Strong key is a solution to maintain different versions of a component. A Strong Key (also called SN Key or Strong Name) is used in the Microsoft .NET framework to uniquely identify a component. This is done partly with Public-key cryptography. A common misconception is that Strong keys add security. This key is produced by another computor program as a pair.
