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| | A developer's short guide to encryption, authentication, and authenticated encryption with examples in PHP
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| | This isn't (necessarily) a security vulnerability; merely an observation that I don't think has been articulated adequately within the cryptography community. I thought it would be worth capturing somewhere public so that others can benefit from a small insight when designing cryptosystems. Background Once upon a time, there was Symmetric Encryption, which provided confidentiality, but...
| | neilmadden.blog
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| | If you read or watch any recent tutorial on symmetric (or "secret key") cryptography, one lesson should be clear: in 2018 if you want to encrypt something you'd better useauthenticated encryption.This not only hides the content of a message, but also ensures that the message was sent by one of the parties that has access...
| | 8yd.no
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| Passwords should be set, not sent - and other things I thought about when someone talked about password-emailing as a natural part of the user registration. I'm no security expert, but that's a big n...