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Rolling Your Own Crypto
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A look at password security, Part II: Web sites
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| | [AI summary] This article discusses password security challenges on websites, focusing on vulnerabilities like remote attacks, password reuse, phishing, and the importance of secure password storage and authentication methods.
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Introducing Nimotsu - Cronokirby
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| | - Read more: https://cronokirby.com/posts/2021/06/introducing_nimotsu/
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NaCl: DJB's new crypto library - rdist
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| | NaCl is a new crypto library, courtesy of Dan Bernstein of qmail fame and Tanja Lange. After my series of posts on why crypto libraries have seriously hurt web security by offering an API that is too low-level, I was pleased to find NaCl's main interface is high-level. In addition to the kind of fanatical...
| | luxsci.com
SSL versus TLS: What is the difference?
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| SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are fundamental to Internet transport security, but they are often confused.