.NET Security and Cryptography

Chapter One. .NET Cryptography and Security

You do not often see books that discuss both cryptography and security with equal prominence. These two topics seem, at least on the surface, to be entirely separate disciplines, and they are usually discussed independently of one another. After all, how often does a network administrator wonder about cryptographic questions, such as how hard it is to factor a large product of two prime numbers? And how often does a mathematician think about security configuration tasks, such as controlling access to items in the Windows registry or Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual directories? Books on cryptography tend to be quite mathematical and theoretical. In contrast, books on security tend not to ...