Tag: Public Key
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Ansible Vault
Introduction Ansible Vault is a feature of Ansible that allows you to keep sensitive data, such as passwords or keys in encrypted files, …
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How Secure Is 256-bit Encryption?
SSL security is all about encryption of data over two nodes. The safe transfer over an internet connection is attained due to encryption …
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EC Private and Public Key Pair
An EC (Elliptic Curve) key-pair is a pair of a private and public key constructed from a given subgroup generator in a given elliptic curve …
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OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared ‘poisoning’ attack
Somebody out there has taken a big dislike to Robert J. Hansen (‘rjh’) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor (‘dkg’), two well-regarded experts …
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Encryption, Part 3: Hybrid Encryption
In part one of the series, I covered the topic of symmetric encryption (SE). While in part two, I covered public/ private key encryption, …
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Encryption, Part 2: Public Key/Private Key Encryption
In my previous article, I presented the concept of symmetric encryption, where the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt data. The …
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What Is Asymmetric Encryption?
When it comes to the word encryption, we think of it as a technique that protects data using a cryptographic key, and there’s nothing …
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More phishing attacks on Yahoo and Gmail SMS 2FA authentication
The second report in a week has analysed phishing attacks that are attempting – and probably succeeding – in bypassing older forms of …
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Signing and Verifying Ethereum Signatures
For an on-chain Ethereum transaction to be processed, it needs to be included in a block and mined. As a result, on-chain transactions take …
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