Sam Ruby comments on my post: Sam Gentile: Our blogger Mike Deem has a new MSDN column article Microsoft SOAP Toolkit Type Mappers. This is sorely missing from .Net remoting and ASP.Net, and puts users in a position where people like Keith Ballinger are obstacles and bottlenecks. This was the genesis for the now oftenquoted statement by Simon Fell that It's in the spec, its ten lines of code, just bloody write it!
The classes in the .Net Framework cryptography namespace manage many details of cryptography for you. Here is a good introduction.
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Microsoft plans Web services security push. The software maker will announce plans Thursday for technology that will allow businesses to authenticate user identities between companies and applications using Web services standards. [CNET News.com]