Cryptography Overview
The Cryptography feature for Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET provides services that enable application developers to add security to applications using cryptography. It includes functionality for encoding to and decoding from ASN.1, for hashing, encrypting, and decrypting data, for using digital certificate, and for managing certificates.
Feature Summary
The following table shows operating system design information for Cryptography.
| Element | Information |
|---|---|
| Dependencies | Smart Card CSP requires the smart card resource manager module and CryptoAPI 1.0. |
| Hardware considerations | None. |
Modules and Components
The following table shows the components and modules that implement Cryptography.
| Item | Module | Component |
|---|---|---|
| Cryptography Services (CryptoAPI 1.0 with High Encryption Provider) | coredll, rsaenh | coredll module: cryptapi |
| Certificates (CryptoAPI 2.0) | msasn1, crypt32 | None |
| Low Encryption Provider (Microsoft Base Cryptographic Service Provider) | rsabase | None |
| Smart Card Encryption Provider | scwcsp, scwapi, scwcspgui | None |
Application Development Topics
Microsoft Cryptographic System
About Cryptographic Service Provider
Cryptography Registry Settings
Last updated on Friday, April 09, 2004
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