Security runs in my blood. After extensively working on cryptography on .net platform and have developed couple of mission critical apps. I was given the other challenge for an LOB app in WinRT platform. One of the requirements of the app was of cryptography. I researched it and learned a lot about it, so thought let me share the my knowledge with the community. WHAT PLATFORM HAS TO OFFER Let the readers get this straight, the WinRT platform is still under evolution , hence it does not offer the same number of apis that are available under .net platform. The platform will become more mature in future and you will see more convergence between the two platforms. There are two main api's available which does most of heavy weight lifting. They are IBuffer, which marshal out the data. I would term it as an alternative to byte array available in .net and the other one is the static class CryptographicBuffer. I shall be talking about three aspects of cryptography Hashing Random Data Symmetric Encryption HASHING WinRT support MD5, SHA-1,SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashing algorithms.


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