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_9

9.  Hybrid Encryption

Stephen Haunts¹ 

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Belper, Derbyshire, UK

 

At the beginning of the book, I discussed four security principles to tackle with cryptography in our software solutions (see Figure 9-1). Let’s review them.

Figure 9-1

Cryptographic primitives to be used for hybrid encryption

First, confidentiality is what you traditionally associate with cryptography, which is where you take a message or some other data and encrypt it to make the original data completely unreadable. There are many cryptography algorithms, including ...