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Why is Exclusive Or (XOR) Important in Cryptography?
If you are getting into cryptography, or just trying to understand the fundamentals, you may have noticed that the exclusive-or (XOR) operation is used quite of...
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Hashing Passwords - Python Cryptography Examples
Building a from-scratch server or using a lightweight framework is empowering. With that power comes responsibility, specifically the responsibility to securely...
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JavaScript With Statement Explained – A Deep Dive
JavaScript’s built-in with statement specifies the default object for the given property and gives us a shorthand for writing long object references. More preci...
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BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation
I’m going to focus mostly on some design decisions and also how I went about writing an SPI interface using Go on a Raspberry Pi. I assume my readers have a bas...
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JavaScript Map Function Explained - A Deep Dive
The built-in JavaScript map function returns a new array, where each element in the new array is the result of the corresponding element in the old array after...
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Top 6 Golang Logging Best Practices
Let’s discuss a few rules of thumb for logging in Go, as well as some features you may not have heard of that can make debugging easier.
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Top 8 Online Crypto Communities
Crypto has been explosive in 2021. The gains have been even better than the memes! While dancing cat videos are fun, the wise will also take advantage of the va...
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Intro to The AES-256 Cipher
AES, or “Advanced Encryption Standard”, is an encryption specification that uses the Rijndael cipher as its symmetric key ciphering algorithm. AES encrypts a me...
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Cryptography Trends And News Going Into 2020
Quantum computing may not be coming quite as fast as some in the field had certainly feared (or perhaps hoped). Google did, however, solve an impressive problem...
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Basic Intro to Key Derivation Functions
A Key Derivation Function, or KDF, is a cryptographic algorithm that derives one or more secret keys from a secret value. If you’ve ever needed to store a passw...
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a pract...
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The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick...
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Cryptology vs Cryptography - Definitions and Differences
Many new developers are jumping right into writing code, usually for those fat paychecks, without learning much about the history of Computer Science. Alan Turi...
There are many ways to traverse an array in Javascript. In this benchmark, we will look at five different ways and the pros and cons of each. Keep in mind that...
Once upon a time, a company I worked for had a problem, we had thousands of messages flowing through our data pipeline every second, and we wanted to be able to...