PDC Presentations: Security on the Internet

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
San Francisco, CA (March 12-14, 1996)

Didn't make the PDC? You'll find the slides, papers, and samples on Internet security presented at the PDC in the zipped files below. (Presentations are in Microsoft® PowerPoint® format. If you don't have PowerPoint installed on your machine, you can view the presentations by downloading the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer from the Microsoft Office Web site.)

* Internet Security Overview/PCT
Bob Williams, Netmanage, Inc.
(March 12, 1996, 4 P.M.)
This session provides an overview and history of security technologies as well as a discussion of the personal communication technology (PCT) architecture and Netmanage's WinPCT implementation. A demo of PCT over standard Winsock1.1 implementation is given.

*  Authenticating Code for Internet Distribution
Stuart Theodore and Rob Price, Microsoft
(March 13, 1996, 5:30 P.M.)
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How do you know that the code you download is safe? Downloading code is a big part of providing Active Content on the Internet. Assuring your customers that your controls are safe to run is crucial to your success in the Internet world. This session discusses the application of digital signature technology to Internet controls, and describes the code-signing process.

*  Security: Crypto API
Terence Spies, Microsoft
(March 13, 1996, 5:30 P.M.)
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The Microsoft Cryptographic application programming interface (CryptoAPI) provides services that enable application developers to add cryptography to their Win32™ applications. Applications can use the functions in CryptoAPI without knowing anything about the underlying implementation, in much the same way that an application can use a graphics library without knowing anything about the particular graphics hardware configuration. Learn how to incorporate this new Win32 API into your applications. Check out the CryptoAPI page for more information on CryptoAPI.

*  SET: Secure Card Payment Over the Internet
Brian Beckman, Microsoft
(March 12, 1996, 5:30 P.M.)
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We go over the converged STT/SEPP secure card payment scheme in this session. Microsoft will be creating a Win32 API based on SET. This session is an overview of the scheme--we give you an updated schedule on this technology and how it works in the payment chain.

* PCT: Personal Communication Technology
Terence Spies and Dan Simon, Microsoft
(March 13, 1996, 4 P.M.)
The Private Communication Technology specification is designed to secure general-purpose business and personal communications on the Internet, and includes features such as privacy, authentication (secure identification) and message integrity. PCT offers improved efficiency over SSL, with enhanced and expanded security features. Learn how you can incorporate PCT into your Web browser and Web server. We walk through some sample code, cover future PCT directions and client authentication. Check out http://pct.microsoft.cominternet link on the Web to request a copy of the PCTRef source code implementation.

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