---
title: "Crypto for everyone"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/11/crypto-for-everyone.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/11/crypto-for-everyone.html"
published: "2004-03-11T11:19:00"
updated: "2004-03-11T11:19:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Although I've used the Crypto classes a bit before, it was a bit of a steep learning curve for me. This nice and simple article (+code!) seems to be just what I was looking for at that time: Crypto for everyone (via…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Crypto for everyone

By Roy Osherove March 11, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 11, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Although I've used the Crypto classes a bit before, it was a bit of a steep learning curve for me.

This nice and simple article (+code!) seems to be just what I was looking for at that time:

[Crypto for everyone](http://weblogs.asp.net/hernandl/archive/2004/03/08/85884.aspx)

(via [Daniel](http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive/2004/03/11/87737.aspx))

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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