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Ever since the Invisible Salamanders paper was published, there has been a quiet renaissance within my friends and colleagues in applied cryptography for studying systems that use Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) constructions, understanding what implicit assumptions these systems make about the guarantees of the AEAD mode they chose to build upon, and the...
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A quick comparison of libsodium functions with similar names/purposes, and which one to use for a specific use case
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| | scottarc.blog

Head's up: This is a blog post about applied cryptography, with a focus on web and cloud applications that encrypt data at rest in a database or filesystem. While the lessons can be broadly applicable, the scope of the post is not. One of the lessons I learned during my time at AWS Cryptography (and...
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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....
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