Talking About Cryptography on Dot Net Rocks

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 Hybrid Cryptography where you use a combination of AES, RSA, and SHA256 to create a robust encryption scheme.

The show was a lot of fun to record. It is quite daunting when you are suddenly on a show that you have been listened too every week for 5 years, but Carl and Richard made the experience very easy going and fun.

Here is the show description.

Encrypt all the things! Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Haunts about how to use cryptography properly. And as it turns out, you don’t have to be a mathematician to put crypto to work for you! The conversation starts out focusing on password hashing – lots of ways to do it wrong, salting seems complicated, but in the end, there is a built-in, poorly named function in the .NET Framework that will give you proper leading edge password hashing, you just have to know what it is (check the links on the show page). From there Stephen talks about 2-way symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Best used together, and best used on any and all data that you have. Good stuff!