Applied Cryptography in .NET and Azure Key Vault: A Practical Guide to Encryption in .NET and .NET Core

© Stephen Haunts 2019

Stephen HauntsApplied Cryptography in .NET and Azure Key Vaulthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4375-6_10

10. Key Storage and Azure Key Vault

Stephen Haunts¹ 

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Belper, Derbyshire, UK

 

In previous chapters, we built a sophisticated encryption example that had the ability to use symmetric encryption to encrypt our data while protecting the symmetric encryption keys utilizing an RSA public and private key pair. While symmetric encryption is fast and efficient, moving the keys between multiple parties is very hard to achieve safely; this is why we use RSA to encrypt the symmetric key. The key is encrypted using the recipient’s public key (which can be known by anyone) and is then decrypted using the recipients private key (which ...