Cryptography - Pg. 2
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Cryptography Trends And News Going Into 2020
Jan 03, 2020 by Lane WagnerQuantum Computing 🔗 Quantum computing may not be coming quite as fast as some in the field had certainly feared (or perhaps hoped).
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Intro to The AES-256 Cipher
Jan 02, 2020 by Lane WagnerAES, or “Advanced Encryption Standard”, is an encryption specification that uses the Rijndael cipher as its symmetric key ciphering algorithm.
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Jan 01, 2020 by Lane WagnerHash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks.
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Basic Intro to Key Derivation Functions
Dec 30, 2019 by Lane WagnerA Key Derivation Function, or KDF, is a cryptographic algorithm that derives one or more secret keys from a secret value.
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Cryptology vs Cryptography - Definitions and Differences
Dec 16, 2019 by Lane WagnerMany new developers are jumping right into writing code, usually for those fat paychecks, without learning much about the history of Computer Science.
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Encoding vs Encryption - They Aren't the Same
Aug 14, 2019 by Lane WagnerWhile encryption does involve various methods of encoding data, the two are absolutely not interchangeable. In fact, if you get them mixed up it can result in serious data breaches and security vulnerabilities.
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Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase
Aug 03, 2019 by Lane WagnerWe all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords.
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BIP 32 Watch-Only Wallets
Jul 25, 2019 by Lane WagnerBitcoin improvement proposal 32 is, in my opinion, one of the most important BIPs we have.
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Secure Random Numbers in Node.js
Jul 03, 2019 by Lane WagnerQuick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js. const { randomBytes } = await import('node:crypto'); const buf = randomBytes(256); console.