Use SSH tunneling to secure MySQL connections.

Learn how to use cryptography to improve the security of your applications. Discover the basic building blocks for encryption and hashing using C#.

ASP.NET 2.0 enables you to encrypt portions of your configuration file. You can pick a section in your Web.config file to encrypt and then decrypt.

If you don't want the overhead or complexity of a government-standard encryption technique, there is a simple solution.

Discover a way to make SQL databases easy to deploy within a MSI file along with your applications.

Learn how to add a connection string to your app.config file in Visual Studio 2005, encrypt that connection string, and introduce a tool for automatically encrypting connection strings for ASP.NET.

Learn how to encrypt offline data, .NET style. Paul Kimmel offers you the opportunity to experiment with ADO.NET, XML serialization, streams, and the DPAPI—technologies you can use to encrypt user data.

Explains symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and then shows how to combine them. The .NET framework is used. All code snippets are written in VB.NET.

In the latest CodeGuru .NET Nuts '& Bolts column, Mark covers encrypting data using the cryptography classes available through the Microsoft .NET Framework.