.NET's Cryptographic One-Shots
Over the past few releases in .NET, formerly .NET Core, there has been progress on making cryptographic primitives like AES, SHA, etc. better for developers to use.
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Import and Export RSA Key Formats in .NET Core 3
.NET Core 3.0 introduced over a dozen new APIs for importing and exporting RSA keys in different formats.
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Sometimes valid RSA signatures in .NET
One of the nice things about .NET Core being open source is following along with some of the issues that people report.
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Secure Random Integers in .NET Core 3
.NET Core 3.0 is tentatively set to include a new API for securely generating a random integer bound to a specific range.
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FixedTimeEquals in .NET Core
.NET Core introduced FixedTimeEquals which I have personally found to be very helpful. It’s a small method, but given the kind of code I tend to write, I was writing it a lot from project to...
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Playing with RISC-V
Over the past few years I’ve started to sour on x86 architecture for just about everything. From servers, desktop, and mobile, I’ve long wished we had architectures competing with x86 at the high...
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