Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic

Learn the best techniques and tricks from expert author Davis Chapman. Apply these real-world applications, undocumented tips, solutions, projects, and techniques to your own programs in order to become a more wellrounded developer of secure applications with Visual Basic. Chapman gives you what you need to take your Visual Basic application development to the next level.

Learn the Concepts and build the applications

• Implement Secure Socket Layer Communications (SSL) in your applications
• Explore Windows NT and 2000 Security and Security Descriptors
• Develop with COM+ Security capabilities
• Examine certificate creation with the Mircosoft Certificate Server
• Validate users with the Windows NT Security API
• Explore several cryptographic service providers
• Investigate legal issues surrounding cryptography
• Explore the use of Salt values in Public/Private key communications
• Investigate various security standards, their approaches, and their strengths and weaknesses