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My guess is that it's because PBKDF2 is provided as part of the .NET Framework.

It is? I've been using the PBKDF2 NuGet package, which I do not believe is from Microsoft. Are there classes I've missed that are built into .NET?

EDIT: It seems .NET does support it, but only with SHA-1.

Note that .net core supports sha1 through sha512[0]

[0] - https://github.com/aspnet/DataProtection/blob/00d593f1f29884...

Thanks; this is really helpful to know. I'm in the process of converting a bunch of repos to .NET Standard so it looks like I can just ditch the PBKDF2 NuGet package.

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