Pluralsight Blockchain Webinar
Earlier in the year I did a live Pluralsight webinar to about 700 people talking about what a Blockchain is? Why you would want to use one? The differences between a Blockchain and a Database and...
View ArticlePlay by Play: Enterprise Data Encryption with Azure Revealed
I am pleased to announce that my latest course has been released by Pluralsight, called Play by Play: Enterprise Data Encryption with Azure Revealed. This course is a bit different to my previous...
View ArticleRC4 Stream Cipher
I recently started to look at some other cryptography ciphers outside what is included in my development platform of choice, .NET, and started reading up on RC4. RC4 is a stream cipher. Stream Ciphers...
View ArticleCryptography in .NET Talk at the DotNet Notts Usergroup
Meetup at DotNet Notts On January 26th 2015 I will be doing a talk at the DotNet Notts usergroup in Nottingham UK. The talk will be on Pragmatic Cryptography in .NET. The talk synopsis is as follows....
View ArticleMy Cryptography Talk at NDC London
The Video recording of my talk at NDC London is now available to watch on-line. This was my first major conference so it was a little scary, but I really enjoyed the experience. The room was about 2...
View ArticleCryptography in .NET slides from NDC London Now Available
NDC London – Stephen Haunts – Cryptography in .NET The slide deck from my Cryptography in .NET talk at NDC London are now available to download from this site. If you have any questions about this talk...
View ArticleTalking About Cryptography on Dot Net Rocks
Stephen Haunts on the Dot Net Rocks Show Today I am on the Dot Net Rocks show talking about Cryptography with Carl and Richard. We talk mostly about secure ways to store passwords and also talk about...
View ArticleTalking at NDC London
In January I will be attending the NDC conference in London and doing a talk on Cryptography in .NET. This talk will be on Thursday 14th January at 4.20pm. I am really excited to be doing this talk as...
View ArticlePassword Based Key Derivation Function Iteration Counts
I have already spoken about Password Based Key Derivation Functions before on this blog and I have discussed secure password storage with PBKDF2 at length in my Pluralsight course, Practical...
View ArticlePractical Cryptography in .NET Course Released by Pluralsight
I am pleased to announce that my latest course, Practical Cryptography in .NET has been released by Pluralsight. The course description is as follows: As a software developer you have a duty to your...
View ArticleCryptography in .NET talk at the Derbyshire.Net User Group
Cryptography in .NET talk at the Derbyshire Dot Net User Group I will be doing a talk at the Derbyshire Dot Net user group on March 26th 2015 in Derby. The talk will be on Cryptography in .NET. The...
View ArticleInterview on the Syncfusion Blog
Syncfusion recently did a quick interview with me for their blog. I was interviewed because I am an author on their Succinctly series of e-books. Stephen Haunts Interview on the Syncfusion Blog The...
View Article“Cryptography in .NET Succinctly” Book Released
Cryptography in .Net by Stephen Haunts My first book Cryptography in .NET Succinctly has now been released by Syncfusion Inc. Even better news is that this book is FREE of charge. You just sign up with...
View ArticleCryptography in .NET Talk : Slides and Sample Code
Cryptography in .NET Talk at Dot Net Notts Today I did a talk on Cryptography in .NET. The talk synopsis is as follows : Data security is something that we as developers have to take seriously when...
View ArticleRC4 Stream Cipher
I recently started to look at some other cryptography ciphers outside what is included in my development platform of choice, .NET, and started reading up on RC4. RC4 is a stream cipher. Stream Ciphers...
View ArticleCryptography in .NET Talk at the DotNet Notts Usergroup
Meetup at DotNet Notts On January 26th 2015 I will be doing a talk at the DotNet Notts usergroup in Nottingham UK. The talk will be on Pragmatic Cryptography in .NET. The talk synopsis is as follows....
View ArticleCryptography in .NET : Digital Signatures
I have previously written a number of articles on Cryptography in .NET, like the following : Part 1 – Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Part 2 – RSA Part 3 – Random Numbers and Hashes Part 4 – Hybrid...
View ArticlePassword Based Key Derivation Functions in .NET
In this article I want to talk a little about Password Based Key Derivation Functions and their use in .NET. A Password Based Key Derivation Function or PBKDF2 as it is known, is a way to encode...
View ArticleBlock Encrypter .NET Library
I have recently released a small open source library that I thought might be useful to people. The library is called Block Encrypter it is designed to make asymmetric encryption of data in .NET / C#...
View ArticleText Shredder 1.1 Released
I have released the next version of Text Shredder which incorporates some tweaks and features from peer review of users of the application on the internet. Text Shredder : A Personal Encryption Tool...
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