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Applied Cryptography in .NET and Azure Key Vault

A Practical Guide to Encryption in .NET and .NET Core

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Haunts

    1. Belper, UK

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  • Shows you how to perform effective data encryption to protect you and your business against data breaches
  • Teaches you how to go beyond the official documentation to combine all the cryptographic primitives effectively to create a complete solution
  • Provides a range of techniques for key management from certificates to using hardware security modules such as Azure Key Vault

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. What Are Data Breaches?

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 1-10

  3. A Brief History of Cryptography

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 11-23

  4. The Importance of Random Numbers

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 25-30

  5. Hashing and Hashed Message Authentication Codes

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 31-46

  6. Safely Storing Passwords

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 47-60

  7. Symmetric Encryption

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 61-84

  8. Asymmetric Encryption

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 85-100

  9. Digital Signatures

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 101-112

  10. Hybrid Encryption

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 113-141

  11. Key Storage and Azure Key Vault

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 143-168

  12. Azure Key Vault Usage Patterns

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 169-205

  13. Final Summary

    • Stephen Haunts
    Pages 207-221

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 223-228
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About this book

Benefit from Microsoft's robust suite of security and cryptography primitives to create a complete, hybrid encryption scheme that will protect your data against breaches. This highly practical book teaches you how to use the .NET encryption APIs and Azure Key Vault, and how they can work together to produce a robust security solution. 


Applied Cryptography in .NET and Azure Key Vault begins with an introduction to the dangers of data breaches and the basics of cryptography. It then takes you through important cryptographic techniques and practices, from hashing and symmetric/asymmetric encryption, to key storage mechanisms. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to combine these cryptographic primitives into a hybrid encryption scheme that you can use in your applications. 



Author Stephen Haunts brings 25 years of software development and security experience to the table to give you the concreteskills, knowledge, and code you need to implement the latest encryption standards in your own projects.




What You'll Learn
  • Get an introduction to the principles of encryption
  • Understand the main cryptographic protocols in use today, including AES, DES, 3DES, RSA, SHAx hashing, HMACs, and digital signatures
  • Combine cryptographic techniques to create a hybrid cryptographic scheme, with the benefits of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation
  • Use Microsoft's Azure Key Vault to securely store encryption keys and secrets
  • Build real-world code to use in your own projects



Who This Book Is For



Software developers with experience in .NET and C#. No prior knowledge of encryption and cryptographic principles is assumed.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Belper, UK

    Stephen Haunts

About the author

Stephen Haunts has been a software developer for the last 25 years, working in many industries such as video games, financial services, insurance, and healthcare. One of his main specialties is security and cryptography, and he has implemented a range of techniques into many systems at many companies, including financial lenders, insurance claims management companies, and global banks. Stephen regularly speaks at conferences and user groups about secure coding in .NET, and has authored a highly-rated cryptography course for Pluralsight.

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