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title: Consumer APIs for ASP.NET Core
author: rick-anderson
description: Learn about the various ASP.NET Core consumer API data protection topics.
ms.author: riande
ms.date: 10/14/2016
uid: security/data-protection/consumer-apis/index
---
# Consumer APIs for ASP.NET Core

* [Consumer APIs Overview](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/overview)

* [Purpose Strings](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/purpose-strings)

* [Purpose hierarchy and multi-tenancy](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/purpose-strings-multitenancy)

* [Hash passwords](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/password-hashing)

* [Limit the lifetime of protected payloads](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/limited-lifetime-payloads)

* [Unprotect payloads whose keys have been revoked](xref:security/data-protection/consumer-apis/dangerous-unprotect)