Cryptographic Application Programming Interfaces
The Cryptographic Application Programming Interface Microsoft (also known under the name of CryptoAPI , ms CAPI or simply CAPI ) is an application program interface for the languages C and C++ present in the operating system Windows of Microsoft and which makes it possible to use the cryptographic functions implemented in the Cryptographic Service Provider. It is about during with the pseudo-protocol PKCS #11 provided establishes by RSA which is usually used in the world Unix/Linux.
The primitives provided by the CAPI make it possible to quantify and decipher data by using symmetrical and asymmetrical keys of coding. It also make it possible to carry out operations of numerical signatures of documents, of checking of signature, generation of pseudo-random number or calculation of hash (see Fonction of hash).
The interest of the CAPI is to provide an application program interface unified for all the cryptographic service providers.
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