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cryptography

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Message Authentication Codes

Introduction We discussed previously how to ensure message confidentiality between two parties, Alice and Bob. We saw that we could use a symmetric key cipher, such as AES or ChaCha20, to encrypt messages between Alice and Bob so that only they can read them. However, when Bob gets a message

Symmetric encryption

Introduction Encryption has been the main application of cryptography for a very long time. Its goal is to transform a message into another one and send it through an insecure channel, such that only the intended parties (who know all the elements necessary to reverse the transformation) can read it

How to create your own crappy RSA as a software developer

Introduction One of the key developments in cryptography was the introduction of public key (or asymmetric) cryptosystems. These rely on pairs of keys: one of them is the public key (known to everybody) and the other is the private key (known only to the specific user). The public key is

Math Survival Kit for Developers

Introduction When working with cryptographic applications you need to understand some of the underlying math (at least, if you want to do things properly). For example, the RSA cryptographic system (which was one of the earliest methods and most widely adopted, until it lost ground to better methods, such as

What every developer needs to know about elliptic curves

Elliptic curves (EC) have become one of the most useful tools for modern cryptography. They were proposed in the 1980s and became widespread used after 2004. Its main advantage is that it offers smaller key sizes to attain the same level of security of other methods, resulting in smaller storage

Secure computation in Rust: Using Intel's SGX instructions with Teaclave and Fortanix

TEEs can be thought of as processes that are running "isolated" from the OS and upper layers in a secure part of the CPU. The idea of this is to help to significantly reduce the attack surface.