Cryptography for Visual Basic:

A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI

Richard Bondi

416 pages, parution le 15/08/2000

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Résumé

With billions of dollars at stake,e-businesses must take the necessary steps to ensure privacy and protection for customer data. Microsoft's CryptoAPI provides Visual Basic programmers with strong cryptography to keep this data safe, but its internals have been a mystery until now. This book guides you through the process of accessing the powerful but tricky routines of Microsoft's cryptographic libraries. You'll find an in-depth introduction to modern cryptography and learn how to build cryptographic "modules" (COM objects) that can be used by any Visual Basic program. Best of all, the source code is included under an Open Source license so that you are free to use, modify, and distribute it, even commercially, without paying any fees. You can help enhance the code as part of the Open Source community. Providing much-needed insight on Microsoft's cryptography, this book will help you:

Learn how modern cryptography works
Find out how the Base Functions of the CryptoAPI work
Discover how to call the API from Visual Basic
Uncover deep Visual Basic tricks to write a powerful error handler
Learn how to write the WCCO (Wiley CryptoAPI COM Objects) COM wrappers for the CryptoAPI
Utilize several quality assurance tests for the WCCO

The CD-ROM includes:

WCCO 1.0 Source Code and its Wiley Open Source License
WCCO 1.0 Interface Guide and its Open Publication License
WCCO Test Code
CryptoAPI Container Manager
Regasaurus program

Contents

Everything a VB Programmer Needs to Know about Cryptography
An Overview of the CryptoAPI
Calling the CryptoAPI from Visual Basic
Deep Visual Basic Tricks
An Object Model for the CryptoAPI
The Provider and the Container Objects
The Key Objects
Hashing and Signing with the WCCO Objects
Encryption and the Messagetext Object
Testing the Objects
Key Management and Data Security
Philosophy, Public Policy, the Law, and Cryptography
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Open Source License

L'auteur - Richard Bondi

Richard Bondi is a senior developer at 3rd Millenium (www.3rdmill.com), a bioinformatics company. He has worked as a Web developer since 1996, moved into e-commerce and enterprise programming in 1998, and has consulted leading Internet companies on programming cryptography.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Richard Bondi
Parution	15/08/2000
Nb. de pages	416
Format	19 x 23,3
Couverture	Broché
Poids	864g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471381891