Own your mistakes
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What’s the largest mistake you’ve made in your career? Did you hold yourself accountable for it? What did you learn through the experience?
Technology
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Basic cryptography – Diffie-Hellman key exchange
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How do you communicate securely over an insecure medium? Using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to agree on an encryption key is a start!
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Fear of deployment
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Everyone experiences fear, especially creatives like developers. Overcoming that fear to ship an imperfect 1.0 is the only way we learn.
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You absolutely SHOULD roll your own crypto
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Expert cryptographers will warn you to never roll your own algorithms. Well, they’re wrong and here are three reasons why.
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Different cipher types
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Anyone studying cryptography needs to understand various forms of ciphers. Today, we’ll look at three that you should know well.
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Basic cryptography – the Caesar cipher
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One of the most basic encryption schemes is the Caesar cipher. It’s weak in practice, but a great way to learn how crypto works.
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Modulo arithmetic with large numbers
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Modulo arithmetic with numbers large enough to ensure cryptographic security is complicated, particularly in PHP. Let’s work around that…
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Modulo exponentiation in PHP – three ways
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Modulo exponentiation lies at the core of most modern crypto. Learn three different ways to perform this calculation in PHP.
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Ethics in technology and advertising
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Ethics is one of the more complicated concepts in tech. Everyone knows what it is, but ethics become frighteningly easy to ignore.
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Today’s youth will define tomorrow’s technology
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The youth of today will define tomorrow’s technology. The world forgets this fact at our own peril.