DataProtection

Data Protection APIs for protecting and unprotecting data. You can find documentation for Data Protection in the ASP.NET Core Documentation.

Description

The following contains a description of each sub-directory in the DataProtection directory.

• Abstractions: Contains the source files for the main DataProtection interfaces like IDataProtector and IDataProtectionProvider
• Cryptography.Internal: Contains the source files for cryptography infrastucture. Applications and libraries should not reference this package directly.
• Cryptography.KeyDerivation: Contains the source files related to key derivation, i.e. PBKDF2
• DataProtection: Contains the main implementation of DataProtection for ASP.NET Core to protect and unprotect data.
• EntityFrameworkCore: Contains the implementation for storing data using EntityFrameworkCore
• Extensions: Contains additional apis via extension methods.
• StackExchangeRedis: Contains the implementation for storing data using StackExchange.Redis
• samples: Contains a collection of sample apps
• shared: Contains a collection of shared constants and helper methods/classes

Development Setup

Build

To build this specific project from source, follow the instructions on building a subset of the code.

Test

To run the tests for this project, run the tests on the command line in this directory.

More Information

For more information, see the ASP.NET Core README.

Community Maintained Data Protection Providers & Projects

• ASP.NET Core DataProtection for Service Fabric