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| | A developer's short guide to encryption, authentication, and authenticated encryption with examples in PHP
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| | So far in this series we've seen elliptic curves from many perspectives, including the elementary, algebraic, and programmatic ones. We implemented finite field arithmetic and connected it to our elliptic curve code. So we're in a perfect position to feast on the main course: how do we use elliptic curves to actually do cryptography? History As the reader has heard countless times in this series, an elliptic curve is a geometric object whose points have a surprising and well-defined notion of addition.
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| | Here at Trail of Bits we review a lot of code. From major open source projects to exciting new proprietary software, we've seen it all. But one common denominator in all of these systems is that for some inexplicable reason people still seem to think RSA is a good cryptosystem to use. Let me save [...]
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| 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....