Azure Cloud: Mining the Ether (a practical guide)

Azure Cloud: Mining the Ether (a practical guide)

A Practical guide to Mining and Transferring Tokens of Your Own Private Cryptocurrency “Which cryptocurrency is better? Mine, of course! Please don’t make me sign up to another service, just let me trade Ether and create Tokens …” Like many...

Crypto So Easy My Mother Uses It

If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of the use of encryption for the sake of privacy.  I’ve ranted about PGP and S/MIME, tried to break steganography and complained about the privacy issues I face as a Gmail user. ...
Book Review: An Introduction to Cryptography

Book Review: An Introduction to Cryptography

In my quest for more knowledge of cryptography, I’ve started reading actual books (instead of just reading API reference documents.) If you’re like me, and you’ve decided that going deeper than just making the code work is a good thing, read on. Today, I’m going to...

Encrypting Your Messages With OpenPGP.js

Terrible mashup of OpenPGP.js logo and source code by the author (because nothing says “Where’s the source?” like a bad logo.) Last time I wrote, I showed you how to use Braintree.js to encrypt form values. I even built a contact form to do it. It occurred to me that...