About Me
- Name: Sushant Bhatia
- Location: Tempe, Az
I work at CUbiC, the Center for Ubiquitous Computing at ASU. We are developing applications and devices for individuals who are blind. I personally am in charge of developing the iCare BookReader. This device will allow individuals who are blind to have print material read to them. The interface is intuitive and accessible. The process is much faster than using a scanner and our BookReader is quite feature rich. On a personal note, I love coding especially in .Net and C#.
Cryptography in .Net Framework 2.0: Design of the Cryptography Application Block
The Cryptography Application Block was designed to achieve the following goals:
Provide a simple and intuitive interface to the commonly required functionality:
- Encapsulate the logic that is used to perform the most common application cryptography tasks.
- Present a standard consistent model for common cryptography tasks
- Make sure that the application block is extensible
- Make sure minimal or negligible performance impact compared to manually written cryptography code that accomplishes the same functionality
Figure 1 illustrates the design of the Cryptography Application Block.
ISSUES? Definately. Why is the CAB (Cryptograhy Application Block) only providing Symmetric functionality? (Symmetric encryption is where the Key used to encrypt plaintext and decrypt ciphertext are the same.) What about Asymmetric functionality (Public/Prive key encryption)?
On the other hand the Cryptography Application Block will be updated to work with the .NET Framework 2.0 and may include additional improvements based on customer feedback. So feedback away!!