Encrypting Application Data in .NET - From AES Basics to Keychains, Rotation, and Searchable Trade-offs
The article discusses the importance of encrypting application data in .NET, focusing on property-level encryption. It highlights the challenges of managing encryption keys and searching encrypted data. The author emphasizes the need for a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods for effective data protection.
- ▪Encrypting data before it reaches the database helps protect sensitive information from unauthorized access.
- ▪The article outlines the differences between symmetric and asymmetric encryption and their respective roles in data security.
- ▪Key management and the ability to search encrypted data are critical considerations in implementing encryption in production systems.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3541358) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Roman Golovanov Posted on May 17 Encrypting Application Data in .NET - From AES Basics to Keychains, Rotation, and Searchable Trade-offs #csharp #security #dotnet #efcore If you have ever shipped a feature that stores personal data - emails, free-text notes, API tokens, identification numbers - you have probably had the same uncomfortable thought: the database is going to outlive the trust we have placed in it. Backups get copied to laptops. Snapshots end up on shared file shares.
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