At the end of April I moved from the BizTalk UA team to Windows Server UA team. I have gone from writing content about BAM to working with the documentation for building Cryptographic systems.

When I came to the team my concept of cryptography was limited to the actual encryption of the data. Now that I have been here for a month and a half I have had my eyes opened and I am just beginning to scratch the surface of what a cryptographic system really is. I am working my way through Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, a truly fascinating read.

The major areas of documentation that I now 'own' can be found at

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380255.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376210.aspx

As to the future of this blog, I would like to accomplish the following:

  • Solicit feedback on new topics that I am working on.
  • Hear about areas in the existing documentation that need improvement
  • Find out about real work applications or the technologies that you would like share that will help others better understand the usages.

Currently we are working toward a monthly refresh cycle on the MSDN docs. So you should see on going improvement in the documentation. One big push that I am working on is getting all the TBD's eliminated from the existing MSDN documentation.

I look forward to hearing from you.