August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 59m
English
Microsoft initially addressed the issue of data privacy in 1996 with the introduction of the Win32 Cryptography API (CryptoAPI) in Windows NT. Although the CryptoAPI provided thorough support for cryptographic programming, it was very difficult to use. You had to know a great deal about cryptography to make sense out of the many parameters and the large number of APIs. Also, it was not object oriented, since it was a straight C language interface, and you typically had to call many functions to perform even the simplest of operations. Fortunately, the .NET Framework greatly simplifies our work by providing a very elegant set of classes in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
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