.NET Cryptographic Services
Quick note, in cryptography services; .NET framework provides with the ability to securely transmit sensitive data. It implements a streams-based encryption layer, which allows data streams to be routed through encryption objects to produce encrypted output streams.
It supports the following symmetric(use the same key for encrypt/decryption) algorithms:
DES, 3DES, RC2, Rijndael/AES.
Following asymmetric(two keys, one for encryption and one for decryption) algorithms, called public and private keys:
RSA, DSA
Following are the hashing algos supported by .NET:
hashing algorithms; MD5(now getting obsolete), SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, along with the support of X.509 certificates.
Also, .NET's SecureString is worth looking into.
It supports the following symmetric(use the same key for encrypt/decryption) algorithms:
DES, 3DES, RC2, Rijndael/AES.
Following asymmetric(two keys, one for encryption and one for decryption) algorithms, called public and private keys:
RSA, DSA
Following are the hashing algos supported by .NET:
hashing algorithms; MD5(now getting obsolete), SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, along with the support of X.509 certificates.
Also, .NET's SecureString is worth looking into.