fips
2 posts tagged fips.
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CNG Architecture: BCrypt, NCrypt, KSPs, and How Windows Picks Its Algorithms
A guided tour of the Cryptography API: Next Generation -- the two-tier API, the Key Storage Provider model, the FIPS toggle, and how PQC slots in.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography on Windows: The Thirty-Year Migration That Just Arrived
How NIST FIPS 203/204/205 reaches the Windows platform via SymCrypt, CNG, Schannel, and .NET 10 -- the algorithm internals, the wire format, the migration timeline, and the honest accounting.