encryption - Ryan Brooks

Ryan Brooks

encryption

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Random thoughts

New Host!

I've finally moved to a VPS on DigitalOcean, from my previous (free) shared hosting. I did this for a couple of reasons: first, while my hosting was free for a year with my domain name, that year was almost up. To renew my hosting for the second+ year,

Hacking the Hackers

Hacking the Hackers

Have you ever heard of Hacking Team? It's an Italian company specializing in "digital infiltration" products for governments, law enforcement agencies, and large corporations. Simply put, they sell hacking tools. You might think, given their business model, that they would monitor their own security religiously. Last

What is asymmetric cryptography?

What is asymmetric cryptography?

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman were jointly awarded the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award today. Their 1976 paper, New Directions in Cryptography, essentially created asymmetric cryptography. Today, asymmetric cryptography secures our online communications—from PGP-secured texts, emails, and files, to TLS and SSL-secured websites (including this one)