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Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 3

October 24, 2012 Oct 24, 2012 10/24/12

levibroderick

Thanks for joining us for the final day of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! Up to now, the series has discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, including how the pipelines are implemented in both ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET 4.5. We introduced APIs to give developers fuller control over the cryptographic pipeline and to drive ...

Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 2

October 23, 2012 Oct 23, 2012 10/23/12

levibroderick

Thanks for joining us for day two of our series on cryptography in ASP.NET 4.5! In yesterday's post, I discussed how ASP.NET uses cryptography in general, where key material is pulled from and how it is stored, and various problems that the APIs have introduced over the years. In today's post, I'll discuss how we're mitigating those issues ...

Cryptographic Improvements in ASP.NET 4.5, pt. 1

October 22, 2012 Oct 22, 2012 10/22/12

levibroderick

I am Levi Broderick, a developer on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. In this series, I want to introduce some of the improvements we have made to the cryptographic core in ASP.NET 4.5. Most of these improvements were introduced during beta and spent several months baking. When you create a new project using the 4.5 templates baked into Visual ...