Cryptography





0/5 (0 vote)
At A large part of security in any web application is keeping your secrets secret. Cryptography makes that
At A large part of security in any web application is keeping your secrets secret. Cryptography makes that happen.
Webcasts/Videos
-
Cryptography Webcasts on ZDNET - Not sure what MSDN Webcasts are doing over at ZDNET, but it's excellent content.
How To
-
.NET Encryption Simplified - Not specific to ASP.NET, but this is a great paper with some excellent visualizations that helped me get my head around crypto.
Blogs
- Using Symmetric Cryptography in an ASP.NET Web Page - An oldie but goodie.
- Encrypting Cookie Data with ASP.NET - An interesting and clever solution for storing data in cookies. I wouldn't get in the habit of putting secret in your cookies, but this is a good article nonetheless.
- Cryptography the .NET Way - An excellent article on the .NET Framework Cryptography Classes.
- Protect ASP.NET data with the DPAPI - "The .NET Framework provides a set of cryptography classes, a more elegant and efficient approach is to use the Data Protection API (DPAPI) built into the Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems"
Enjoy!