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9 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments boolean0
To celebrate the 50th release (version 6.9) of OpenBSD, I thought I'd give a shout out to Theo de Raadt and the stacks of volunteers who code up that cryptographic magic known as OpenBSD. I found OpenBSD back in Y2K when I was looking for an operatin...
7 May 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Heath Muchena
An increasing need for privacy and security prompted people to devise ways of communicating through encrypted messages. With an end-to-end encryption communication mode, a person sends a message which the receiver only can read. Essentially, no othe...
2 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Laurenceuuu
I am inloved in books of mystery novels specifically in Wattpad stories and one of the things that I've learned is deciphering a code. Cryptocurrency? Uhh let's forget it for the meantime and let's talk about cryptography! What is cryptography? Cr...
22 Feb 2021 4 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
Cryptoeconomics is the fusion of two social science disciplines as old as civilization itself: Economics and cryptography. I’m going to assume that most readers are familiar with the fundamentals of economics. If you understand that the price of tea...
26 Dec 2020 5 minute read 3 comments MintDice.com
When people think of cryptocurrencies, they generally think of the 21st century, after all, it’s a new technology for most people. You may be surprised to know that the art of cryptography, the idea of hiding language, has actually been around for c...
1 Dec 2020 10 minute read 0 comments Interdax
In this article, we examine a scaling solution for Bitcoin known as Utreexo, which drastically reduces the storage requirements for running a fully validating node. Photo by Brandon Green on Unsplash With the price of bitcoin nearing all-time hig...
1 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments yanis
Asymetric cryptography is very secure, websites need methods that are more secured than passwords, so why not using blocchain for that ? Authentication Have u already seen metamask sign-message function ? It allows signing a message without transm...
24 Nov 2020 4 minute read 1 comment icostan
In simple terms, hash functions transform input data of arbitrary size (e.g. text, binary, etc) to fixed-length output (called hash value, hash code, fingerprint, message digest or simply hash) in a deterministic way. What else? Types of hash functio...
22 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Goodsoul
Yfi Yearn Finance and why it is my next Crypto-Pick? Well we all saw it moon, we all saw it fall, and we all are seeing it climbing back up again. Defi has changed the world of crypto. Not a little but alot. 2020 allows you to bank from wherever yo...
30 Oct 2020 4 minute read 0 comments icostan
The easiest way to understand Elliptic Curve (EC), point addition, scalar multiplication and trapdoor function; explained with simple graphs and animations. 1. Abstract What the heck is an elliptic curve? A plane algebraic curve defined by an equ...
