When working with public networks involved with creating and managing web applications that are accessible over the internet, your application is at high risk of being intercepted and modified by unauthorized parties. Cryptography allows us to protect data from such unauthorized parties from being viewed or modified. Cryptography also provides ways to protect our data and assists in the transfer of data securely over the network. To perform such operations, we can use encryption algorithms to create cipher data prior to transmission. When intercepted by unauthorized parties, it will be difficult for them to decrypt this in order to read or modify this data.
To perform such operations, .NET framework is shipped with the System.Secure.Cryptography namespace, which comes with many algorithms, including the following:
- Secret key encryption
- Public key encryption
- Digital...