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RSA using BouncyCastle

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Håvard

Trying to do RSA using BouncyCastle, but struggling to find your way around the API? In a previous post (see here) I pondered why the RSA implementation in System.Security.Cryptography is restricted to only the most common usage scenarios. I mentioned … Continue reading →

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Mocking HtmlHelper in ASP.NET MVC RC1 using Moq

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Håvard

For those of you trying to mock HtmlHelper, but finding it difficult, here’s a mock that works in ASP.NET MVC RC1.

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Why cripple the .NET RSA implementation?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Håvard

I just found out that RSACryptoServiceProvider, the RSA implementation in .NET, does not allow you to use a private key to encrypt data. I’m no cryptographic expert, but I do know how asymmetric key algorithms like RSA work, and that … Continue reading →

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Strongly typed data binding in Windows Forms

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Håvard

Windows Forms data binding is a great tool for model-view-style applications, where the connection between the model and its view is easily declared. However, data binding is also an error-prone and tedious process with no IntelliSense support where properties are … Continue reading →

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AJAST – Cross-domain REST calls using JSON injection

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Håvard

The typical (and original AJAX) approach to calling web services asynchronously from a browser uses the XMLHTTPRequest object to request data asynchronously. However, as most of you probably already know, requests made using this object are restricted to the same … Continue reading →

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