.NET Security and Cryptography

Chapter Two. Fundamentals of Cryptography

This chapter introduces many of the basic ideas that are required for fully understanding several subsequent chapters. Our purpose is to introduce terminology and concepts, and we consider several simple, classical cryptographic algorithms as examples. These concepts are used in later chapters where more sophisticated algorithms are discussed.

This chapter also gives some interesting historical perspectives on cryptography. The remainder of the book provides a great deal more current, practical information, covering many modern cryptographic and security techniques. Some chapters also delve into the use of the Microsoft .NET Security Framework for implementing many aspects of cryptography and security. ...