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10 October 2007
DPAPI entropy tip and importance of obfuscation
Have you ever wondered why CryptProtectData function asks for "Optional Entropy"? Entropy in crypto world is defined as "randomness". Though is quite difficult for a computer to generate true random value, in this context of DPAPI one can choose a random Read More...
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27 April 2007
when not to use DPAPI
DPAPI is great. only when used in appropriate scenario. Consider this, You encrypt data using DPAPI and latter move ( not copy) the data to the other machine. Now you try to decrypt the data on other machine and it fails. Okay, you change the password Read More...
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