Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Data encryption and storing sensitive data

Data security is always a big concern in any application, and it is a high priority while writing or designing applications. You can use any hashing algorithm to protect the data by encryption and decryption, but it would lead to a performance hit. ASP.NET Core provides a way to protect data with the help of the ASP.NET DataProtection (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection.Abstractions/) NuGet package.

A complete explanation of this topic is beyond the scope of this book. You can refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/data-protection/ for further information.