For long-term Visual C++ developers, the CryptoAPI will be a familiar part of your programming toolkit. If you're developing Windows Vista applications, though, you should be applying the new Windows Cryptography API: Next Generation.
Protect software with product keys based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
Protect Software with Product Keys based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
The need to encrypt sensitive information is more important than ever. Luckily, the C++ class library Crypto++ enables you to encrypt your application data regularly and painlessly.
Learn about a C++/C implementation of CBC DES/DES3.
A frequent challenge is to encrypt and decrypt a string or password. This article contains a C and C++ project that will do this job.
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
Recently one way that developers have been looking to address the cookie abuse problem is via a method known as fingerprinting. Peter Shaw shows you how to generate a fingerprint in C# for use in your own projects.
Hannes du Preez demonstrates how easy it is to work with threads in your VB.NET applications.
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.
