Technology – Page 7 – Eric Mann's Blog

Mar 4

There are many ways to store user credentials for verification on the application side. Of all of them, only hashing is considered secure.

2 min · cryptography · PHP

Mar 2

PHP is the language that drives the Internet. It’s not the most publicly loved of languages, but its utilization makes it the most popular.

2 min · career · PHP

Feb 28

Those who see representative role models are the most successful among us. We need more diverse representation in tech!

2 min · diversity

Feb 27

Credit card issuers have standardized guidelines to better protect customers’ payment information from theft and abuse, PCI-DSS.

4 min · policy

Feb 24

Let’s geek out on my favorite form of authentication – not sending passwords over the wire in the first place!

6 min · authentication · cryptography

Feb 23

PHP ships with multiple, native mechanisms for comparing arbitrary string values. Let’s take a closer look at two that quantify “sameness.”

2 min · PHP

Feb 22

Sometimes, certain design patterns can aid in security as well as reusability of code. Let’s look at value objects as an example.

6 min · PHP · software design

Feb 21

Learn how password reset and other tokens can be secured by splitting the data and leveraging common password hash methodologies.

5 min · authentication · PHP

Feb 20

Every successful development team has two things in common: They’ve shipped a product, and they accepted compromises to make that shipment possible.

4 min · code quality

Feb 19

Breaking encryption is fun. Building an encryption cipher is even more so! Let’s continue our Cryptopals journey with XOR.

2 min · Series: Cryptopals, part 6

Feb 18

Now that we know how to crack a single-byte XOR cipher, let’s expand and crack even more through Cryptopals’ next challenge.

2 min · Series: Cryptopals, part 5

Feb 17

Next up in our Cryptopals walkthrough is some frequency analysis against simple cryptographic keys. Let’s have some fun!

2 min · Series: Cryptopals, part 4