.NET Security and Cryptography

The Nature of This Book

This book is written specifically for programmers interested in .NET security and cryptography, not for system administrators. Therefore, we do not attempt to describe more than a small fraction of the skills needed by professional system administrators. However, every programmer must have some administrative skills to be effective software developers, and security programming is no exception. Therefore, this book does explore some aspects of administration as it directly relates to the tasks of .NET security programming. This book is also not intended for professional cryptographers^[1] or mathematicians, so it does not go too far in that theoretical direction either. However, to gain an appreciation for what goes on under ...