And, so, the media were red hot last week with the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s home:

The core of the security of the Internet is based on one thing: PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). With this, Alice has a key pair: a public key and a private key. This can either be an RSA key pair or an Elliptic Curve key pair. If Alice wants to prove…

Over 10 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote a classic white paper on Bitcoin, and the rest is history:

I have been reading an excellent paper [1] and it outlines the usage of the fault attack on ECDSA signatures. With this we just need one good signature and a bad one, and where they both a sign the same message, and with the same nonce, and the same private…

TLS is truly one of the worst and the best protocols. When it works well, it protects data like no other method, but its implementation has often been buggy, and it copes with so many options. One of its greatest weaknesses is that Eve can select the weakest cipher suite…

All those charts that show you how long it will take to crack a hashed version of a password are defined wrong. Most will take the cracking speed of a fast hashing method and use that. With a proper KDF (Key Derivation Function), we normally slow down the whole process…