In Brief
The native CryptoAPI is a brittle programming interface that is capable of most common cryptography related functions. Users of the .NET Compact Framework must target the CryptoAPI to perform cryptography in their applications.
Due to the brittleness and large number of pitfalls associated with targeting the CryptoAPI class directory from managed code, we provide a simpler-to-use wrapper class called ManagedCryptoAPI.
ManagedCryptoAPI uses central concepts related to CryptoAPI. Specifically, developers must understand the notion of a handle and a CryptoAPI context.
CryptoAPI is extensible. Developers can plug in their own “provider” to perform cryptography inside CryptoAPI. Because of its ubiquitous availability, the ManagedCryptoAPI uses ...
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