This page contains cryptography links that may be useful to Visual Basic programmers. Please feel free to suggest others.
General
This is a famous and very comprehensive cryptography FAQ maintained by the RSA Laboratories, a division of the RSA Security company.
A useful monthly newsletter on applied cryptography, very accessible to the layman. Unfortunately, the archive isn’t searchable, but you can get around that somewhat if you know the power commands for altavista.com: use “+url:counterpane.com” (without the double-quotes) as part of your search to restrict to that domain.
CryptoAPI
A free COM wrapper for Visual Basic, for much of the CryptoAPI. Support for Certificate functions is very strong, for basic cryptography functions less so.
Maintained by Microsoft. Searchable archive. A great resource for CryptoAPI trouble shooting.
Maintained at the msdn library. The official documentation really is impossible to understand unless you already have a good understanding of cryptography. Both recent books on cryptography for visual basic provide this kind of introduction.
Commercial
A company called CryptoObject sells a COM wrapper for much of the CryptoAPI.
Another commercial CryptoAPI COM wrapper, this one from Persits Software.
Press
New York Times encryption page
An archive of encryption stories published by the New York Times
Source Code
Search for VB and ASP code all around the net, in one place.
Lists of Links
Cryptography and Security links compiled by the well-known cryptographer Ron Rivest.
List of links from Counterpane, Bruce Schneier’s company
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