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Some general C# and cryptography resources, which you may, or may not, find helpful. If you have an article, book, or project you would like to see added below send a message to feedback-crypto@bouncycastle.org

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Windows Developer Power Tools: Turbocharge Windows Development with More Than 170 Free and Open Source Tools
James Avery and Jim Holmes - O'Reilly

A general book with extensive coverage of tools available for .NET programming. Includes a section on security, complete with an article discussing use of the general Bouncy Castle APIs for C# in addition to the Bouncy Castle OpenPGP Apis for C# including some basic examples.

"Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C", Second Edition
Bruce Schneier - John Wiley & Sons

A general introduction to Cryptography, if you are new to this area it is well worth the effort to read a copy before trying to implement anything.

"Handbook of Applied Cryptography"
Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. Van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone - CRC Press

Considerably more academic than Bruce Schneier's book, really intended for people with a good background in mathematics and computer science. Very solid, covering both algorithms and basic number theory. Chapters for this book are also available on the web at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ with some restrictions.

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Crypto-Gram
Free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier.

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Source Examples Wiki
Code samples in a wiki environment. Created by David Reis Jr.

RSA Lab's Cryptography FAQ
Frequently asked questions about today's cryptography from RSA Laboratories.

The Object Identifier Registry
Online registry of ASN.1 Object Identifiers and what they are.