An assembly strong name consists of a text name, a version number, optionally a culture, a public key (which often represents your development organization), and a digital signature. You can see the various components of the strong name by looking into Machine.config and seeing how a strong named assembly is referenced.
The following example shows how the System.Web assembly is referenced in Machine.config. In this example, the assembly attribute shows the text name, version, culture and public key token, which is a shortened form of the public key.
<add assembly="System.Web, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
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