Category: Cryptography

• How to Create a Service Master Key in SQL Server

  

  2014-04-25 - Cryptography, Encryption Hierarchy, General, Security, Series

  Discover how the service master key is created, what it protects and how it is protected itself, and learn about the two important security implications that arise from the protection mechanism used.

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• The SQL Server Encryption Hierarchy

  

  2014-04-20 - Cryptography, Encryption Hierarchy, General, Security, Series

  Discover how in SQL Server the different encryption keys can build a complex encryption hierarchy in which one key protects the next.

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• Salt – Preventing Rainbow Attacks against Password Stores

  

  2014-03-31 - Cryptographic Terminology, Cryptography, General, Security, Series

  What is a Salt Value and how does it help to protect the stored passwords of your application’s users from attacks involving Rainbow Tables? Read on to find out now.

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• Cryptographic Hash Functions

  

  2014-03-30 - Cryptographic Terminology, Cryptography, General, Security, Series

  Hash functions calculate a fixed length binary digest of a document. Read on to see what additional requirements turn an ordinary hash function into a cryptographic hash function and what use cases require the use of cryptographic hash functions.

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• Certificates and the Chain of Trust

  

  2014-03-28 - Cryptographic Terminology, Cryptography, General, Security, Series

  Certificates are containers for asymmetric encryption keys that can be used to establish a chain of trust between communicating parties. Read on to see how this works in practice.

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