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About CNG

Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) is the long-term replacement for the CryptoAPI. CNG is designed to be extensible at many levels and cryptography agnostic in behavior.

Features

For information about the features of CNG, see CNG Features.

Cryptographic Primitives

For more information about the cryptographic primitives in CNG, see Cryptographic Primitives.

Key Storage and Retrieval

For more information about key storage and retrieval in CNG, see Key Storage and Retrieval.

Cryptographic Configuration

CNG provides a set of APIs that are used to obtain information about the installed cryptographic providers. For more information, see CNG Cryptographic Configuration Functions.

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