.Net Security

This is a very good book for anyone new to .NET and or security. The .NET documentation is missing in several areaas and this book helps fill in the gaps that the docs have in security. But this book IS NOT a regurgitation of what I can find in the docs. It is new materialThe first couple of chapters make it very clear how to do encryption with .NET. This is the first time I have seen an explanation for what the IV key is for in the encryption algorithms. I was pleasantly surprised to see the discussion in chapter 3 about XML encryption. The standards for this are just coming into scope and this chapter does a nice job of describing what is happening in this space.Code access security is a tught topic to cover in a short chaptyer but the authors do a good job. Again, there is a lot of hype about code access security but you have to look hard to find any real information about it. While I don't have to worry about this right now, this chapter gave me a good understanding of what is possible and how to do it.I also found the last chapters on remoting and ASP.NET interesting and learned a few things in each chaptyer.Is this book a 'cover everything including the kitchen sink' refernce? No. But it is a very good book for anyone who wants a good, solid introduction to the capabilities of .NET security and cryptography. And for me, that is important! Give me information that I can use and work with now. Not more reference material that I need to digest and sort through.