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...
Securing Your Forms With Braintree.js

Securing Your Forms With Braintree.js

Think back to the web of fifteen years ago. Most of the web sites of the time consisted of a few pages of content along with a contact page (and maybe even a guestbook.) Most often that contact page was backed by a script that mailed the results to a fixed e-mail...