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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Securing data with Hashing


.NET Core now uses the cryptography API for the following operating systems:

  • Apple Security Framework on macOS
  • OpenSSL on Linux
  • Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) on Windows

There are two kinds of mechanisms for securing data: hashing and encrypting.

Hashing is a one-way mechanism, and there is no way to return hashed data to its original state.

On the other hand, encryption is a two-way mechanism, and you can return encrypted data to its original state through decryption.

There are a lot of algorithms you can use with ASP.NET Core, such as Hash, SHA256, SHA512, AES, RSA, MD5, and so on. For more information, visit: https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms/.

Getting ready

There is nothing special to get ready for hashing in ASP.NET Core. Just create an empty project and some NuGet packages; that's it.

How to do it...

In this example...