Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about several types of encryption and how they differ; you also read a high-level overview of how they work. You learned how, on a high-level, some of these encryption technologies are combined to form more-involved forms of encryption intended to solve multiple problems at one time, as with message enveloping and the Secure Socket Layer protocol. This description is as detailed as this book will get on any of these encryption algorithms. This book is not intended to teach you how to develop new encryption algorithms but instead how to use those that already exist and are available for your use as part of the Windows operating system. You need to understand, on a high-level, how these different types of encryption ...