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SC441 Cryptography and Network Security - Assignment Paper 2004 Implementation of Cryptographic capabilities using CAPICOM Taiyabi Ahmad Shadab, shadab@pmail.ntu.edu.sg Abstract: This paper provides an insight into the COM interface support provided to Microsoft CryptoAPI by CAPICOM, a new security technology by Microsoft. A brief description of the background of CAPICOM and its functionalities with respect to extension of CryptoAPI is provided along with a detailed overview of CAPICOM.EnvelopedData and CAPICOM.EncryptedData classes. Keywords: CryptoAPI, CAPICOM, Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) I. INTRODUCTION The application of cryptography to the protection of electronic data is recognized as a viable approach for ensuring Data integrity, privacy and authentication. Foundations of cryptography are based on well-understood and validated cryptographic algorithms for encryption, digital signature generation, hashing and associated structures such as X.509 certificates, Cryptographic Message Syntax(CMS) and PKCS#7 structures, a subset of CMS. CryptoAPI provides core cryptographic functionality in Windows and is implemented as a set of native libraries. CryptoAPI uses installed...

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