MSDN Webcast: Hiding the Key: Practical Security for Windows Mobile Applications

I am delivering a webcast on 27 April 2009 at 18:00(British Summer Time)/19:00 (Central Europe)/10:00am Pacific Time (US and Canada)/22:30(New Delhi).

During this webcast I will show some simple demos of how to use synchronbous encryption to encrypt data on a device and explain the importance of securing the encryption key. I will show an example of how to derive an encryption key from a user-entered password as one solution.

Finally I will show how to use the Password Authentication Block from the Microsoft patterns and practices Mobile App Blocks V2 (the successor to 2005's Mobile Client Software Factory). The Password Authentication Block provides a great easy to use method of encrypting data such as configuration files and providing a method for distributing encrypted data to hundreds or thousands of clients, and still allow each user to have a unique username and password as the key to decrypting the data. These blocks are currently under development and I am working with the team as a mobile developer community expert advisor; you can find out more and download the blocks at http://mobile.codeplex.com.

Please register for this webcast, or download the recording after the event, at:

Attendee Registration URL:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032409117&Culture=en-US

UPDATE: You can download the demo code from this webcast through the Atachments link at the bottom of this posting.