Boot.dev Blog - Pg. 14
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JWT Authentication in Golang
Feb 20, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is becoming very popular for backend web development, and JWT’s are one of the most popular ways to handle authentication on API requests.
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How Do Brute-Force Attackers Know They Found The Key?
Feb 11, 2020 by Lane WagnerTo “Brute Force” something (when talking about computers) means to systematically try every possible combination until you find the right answer.
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About Boot.dev
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe think the smartest way to learn to code is to make sure you’re never bored.
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AES-256 Cipher – Python Cryptography Examples
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerWant to encrypt text with a password or private key in Python? AES-256 is a solid symmetric cipher that is commonly used to encrypt data for oneself.
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Affiliate Program Terms of Service
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerAgreement 🔗 By signing up to be an Affiliate in the Boot.dev Affiliate Program (“Program”) you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”).
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Contact Us
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerEmail us here: hello at boot.dev The at is an @ symbol. Social links: YouTube Podcast Twitter LinkedIn Discord If you’re interested in any of the following just shoot us an email 🔗 Partnerships and sponsorships 🔗 Are you looking to have educational content created about your product?
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Frequently Asked Questions
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf you can’t find the answer to your question here, please contact us. How long will it take to learn enough to be hired?
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Return Policy
Feb 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerThanks for being a member of Boot.dev! If you are not entirely satisfied with your purchase, we’re here to help.
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Will Banning Cryptography Keep the Country Safe?
Feb 05, 2020 by Lane WagnerPoliticians in the United States have been claiming recently that end-to-end encryption is certainly too dangerous to permit.
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)
Feb 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerCaching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow.
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Is Open-Source Cryptography Really Secure?
Jan 30, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe purpose of cryptography is to keep information private, and the purpose of open-source is to make code public… So we shouldn’t open-source our cryptography algorithms right?
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Hashing Passwords - Python Cryptography Examples
Jan 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerBuilding a from-scratch server or using a lightweight framework is empowering. With that power comes responsibility, specifically the responsibility to securely store user’s passwords.
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Why is Exclusive Or (XOR) Important in Cryptography?
Jan 18, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf you are getting into cryptography, or just trying to understand the fundamentals, you may have noticed that the exclusive or (XOR) operation is used quite often, especially in ciphers.
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JavaScript With Statement Explained – A Deep Dive
Jan 15, 2020 by Lane WagnerJavaScript’s built-in with statement specifies the default object for the given property and gives us a shorthand for writing long object references.
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JavaScript Map Function Explained - A Deep Dive
Jan 12, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe built-in JavaScript map function returns a new array, where each element in the new array is the result of the corresponding element in the old array after being passed through a callback function.
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BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation
Jan 09, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’m going to focus mostly on some design decisions and also how I went about writing an SPI interface using Go on a Raspberry Pi.
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Top 8 Online Crypto Communities
Jan 08, 2020 by Lane WagnerCrypto has been explosive in 2021. The gains have been even better than the memes! While dancing cat videos are fun, the wise will also take advantage of the various communities as an opportunity to learn more about the technology that supports decentralized money.
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Top 6 Golang Logging Best Practices
Jan 07, 2020 by Lane WagnerLet’s discuss a few rules of thumb for logging in Go, as well as some features you may not have heard of that can make debugging easier.
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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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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
Dec 09, 2019 by Lane WagnerThe podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!
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Building Alerts with Percolate Queries in ElasticSearch
Nov 14, 2019 by Lane WagnerOnce upon a time, a company I worked for had a problem, we had thousands of messages flowing through our data pipeline every second, and we wanted to be able to send real-time emails, SMS, and Slack alerts when messages matching specific criteria were found.