AspNetCore.Docs/aspnetcore/security/data-protection/index.md

title	author	description	ms.author	manager	ms.date	ms.topic	ms.technology	ms.prod	uid
Data Protection in ASP.NET Core	rick-anderson	This document serves as a table of contents for the various ASP.NET Core data protection topics.	riande	wpickett	10/14/2016	article	aspnet	asp.net-core	security/data-protection/index

Data Protection in ASP.NET Core: Consumer APIs, configuration, extensibility APIs and implementation

• Introduction to data protection

• Get started with the Data Protection APIs

• Consumer APIs

  • Consumer APIs overview

  • Purpose strings

  • Purpose hierarchy and multi-tenancy

  • Password hashing

  • Limiting the lifetime of protected payloads

  • Unprotecting payloads whose keys have been revoked

• Configuration

  • Configuring data protection

  • Default settings

  • Machine-wide policy

  • Non DI-aware scenarios

• Extensibility APIs

  • Core cryptography extensibility

  • Key management extensibility

  • Miscellaneous APIs

• Implementation

  • Authenticated encryption details

  • Subkey derivation and authenticated encryption

  • Context headers

  • Key management

  • Key storage providers

  • Key encryption at rest

  • Key immutability and changing settings

  • Key storage format

  • Ephemeral data protection providers

• Compatibility

  • Sharing cookies among apps

  • Replacing in ASP.NET