Pro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis: Creating Advanced Algorithms with C# and .NET

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M. I. Mihailescu, S. L. NitaPro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6367-9_8

8. Overview of the Security.Cryptography Namespace

Marius Iulian Mihailescu¹   and Stefania Loredana Nita¹

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Bucharest, Romania

 

This chapter offers a quick overview of the main classes, structs, and enums of the System.Security.Cryptography namespace, including cryptographic services, secure encoding and decoding process of the data, and many other operations, such as hashing, generation of random numbers, and message authentication. More details about cryptographic services and their implementations can be seen in Chapter 7.

The goal of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive roadmap ...