I wanted to blog about using C# with pkcs11 on SafeNet ProtectServer HSM for your encryption need. The library I intent to use is the Pkcs11 Interop library on GitHub. To being with we need to understand what an HSM is? In wikipedia we find this definition. So how does an HSM really look like? […]
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I had the opportunity to speak in my native home Hong Kong for the first time when I was visiting for holidays on Cloud Design Patterns. It was a lot of fun and thanks to Codeaholics for holding the meetup group in such great form in Hong Kong. For people who wish to see my […]
This would be the second part of the blog post where we used powershell to store some secure data into our registry and have used DPAPI to encrypt the data. I wanted to cover how I would read the data back from the registry in my C# application. An example of C# using DPAPI to […]
One of the easiest cloud design pattern that one can try out is the Retry Pattern. I wanted to show how to use an Retry Pattern using Polly in C# as a example. So what does the Retry Pattern achieves? Problem Statement – What is the issue the pattern solves? When building applications you always […]
In this blog post I wanted to show how one can use C# or Python to view the serial numbers of a X509 certificate. The serial number can be used to identify the certificate that one plans to use in their C# application, lets say for mutual authentication to another service. Why use X509 Certificates […]
I wanted to store some data into registry but how do I store it such that it is secure for my application to read later on. Well there is a way using Powershell to store data into Registry using DPAPI which uses the machine key to store the information. As you know the only way […]
I wanted to try out Azure Functions to see if I can serve html data from Azure Functions that I get from another third party site. As in, if I use RestSharp and call another site from my Azure Function, extract its content and just display it as output to html. This can come in […]
Was playing around with Azure functions and thought I would write a quick blog post on how to use Azure functions to read a text file and send an email out to me daily. Basically I went with a joke a day idea. So lets get started with writing some of the awesome code 🙂 […]
For the past year I have been evaluating and working and even presented ElasticSearch, and I thought it would be good to showcase a series of article on ElasticSearch for .NET Developers. What it brings to the table when developing a software solution. I also did a talk on ElasticSearch at Montreal DevTeach, if you […]
I had the opportunity to speak at satazureday Azure Saturday here in Ottawa last week, and went through the topic of Azure Key Vault. I also had a co-presenter to share the talk with; an upcoming public speaker Petrica Mihai. He created most of the slides and the demo code in C# 🙂 You can […]
