Cryptography

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The Basics Of A Bitcoin Public Key and Private Key

27 May 2023 4 minute read 2 comments 0xVince

Most users are already familiar with a digital wallet. The wallet is what holds your keys to your cryptocurrency assets, like Bitcoin. Then you realize that these are important components of owning your Bitcoin. They grant you control of your own mon...

THE END OF PASSWORDS: PASSKEYS ON THE RISE

8 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Citizen0

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the traditional password has long been the first line of defense for our online accounts. However, with Google's recent announcement of integrating passkeys into their accounts, the era of passwords may be c...

A few words about cryptography and its impact on the creation of Bitcoin

5 Apr 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Aaronaa

Cryptography, the science of secret messages, has been around for thousands of years. Already the ancient Greeks used encryption techniques, and Julius Caesar used his own cipher to protect his confidential documents from prying eyes. Emperor Julius...

Python | Caesar Cipher

6 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Casper_x

Caesar Cipher   Today we will see together how to create the Caesar cipher. Let's start from the beginning.. It is essential to understand how the Caesar cipher works : each letter of the text is shifted by 'n' positions in the alphabet, where 'n' is...

There's Nothing Wonderful About Spam or Surveillance Capitalism (Say Goodbye to Everyone I Have Ever Known)

28 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

About two hours prior to writing this, I've recently checked my email, to find a message from Google in my personal inbox, asking me to confirm that I want mail from a business email address someone set up forwarded to it, without them bothering to a...

Like Bitcoin? Learn the basics of Cryptography!

30 Jan 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Kovichni

Like with everything in life, if you found something you are truly interested in you should at the very least try to understand it better by looking where and how it originated. I'm by no means a code writer or a cryptography expert, I barely passed...

How Asymmetric Encryption Works (In Oversimplified Terms)

16 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Asymmetric encryption requires at least two entities (usually people) to exchange encrypted messages. It also requires each of those entities to have two keys: a public key, which is shared a private key, which is kept secret Here's how it works, i...

Just how private is your VPN, really?

12 Jan 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

VPNs aren't really something about which I know much (other than that they're not the same as onion networks and I should probably use one). However, in the course of enhancing my knowledge of cryptography, I found some potentially useful information...

The Future is Coming On

2 Jan 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark

I don't really make New Years resolutions, for the same reason I don't make promises: I simply don't keep them. I might as well make a resolution to get fat and watch more television, because it's not going to happen. However, there are some things I...

Downloading data through radio, cassettes, newspapers A.K.A transmedium data encoding

1 Jan 2023 7 minute read 5 comments MatPawluczuk

  These days we hear a lot about cryptography, encryption and data modulation. It all sounds very contemporary but in reality, experimenting with data encoding is as old as the idea of data itself. After all, data needs to be stored, it needs to be r...