Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic

Exploring Encryption

One of the key technologies involved with making secure communications possible, especially over the Internet, is encryption. At this point, almost every application that communicates over the Internet has some encryption capabilities. The use of encryption will only increase in the near future, and if you are building applications that will communicate over the Internet, you'll need to be able to include encryption capabilities.

When you're working with encryption, you need to be aware that numerous forms of encryption are available today. All these different forms of encryption have different strengths and weaknesses. You need to be aware of them and be able to weigh all the options as to which form of encryption to use, ...