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

title	author	description	manager	ms.author	ms.date	ms.prod	ms.technology	ms.topic	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.	wpickett	riande	10/14/2016	asp.net-core	aspnet	article	security/data-protection/index

Data Protection in ASP.NET Core

• Introduction to data protection

• Get started with the Data Protection APIs

• Consumer APIs

  • Consumer APIs overview

  • Purpose strings

  • Purpose hierarchy and multi-tenancy

  • Hash passwords

  • Limit the lifetime of protected payloads

  • Unprotect payloads whose keys have been revoked

• Configuration

  • Configure ASP.NET Core 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 settings

  • Key storage format

  • Ephemeral data protection providers

• Compatibility

  • Replacing ASP.NET in ASP.NET Core