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| | quantumloom.in

A simple guide to how cryptography keeps your digital stuff safe-from secret codes to secure messages.
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| | pboyd.io

Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....
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| | notes.volution.ro

About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.
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| | blog.chand1012.dev

Let me get something out of the way: LTT getting hacked is what inspired me to write this. If you were not aware, Linus Tech Tips, one of YouTube biggest tech channels, was hacked. They made a video about the situation, but here is the TLDR: an employee received what they thought was a PDF from a legitimate sponsor for the channel. They downloaded the PDF, tried to open it, and when it didn't open, went back to work.
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