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...

Trying PGP

Some months ago, I wrote about using PGP and S/MIME to keep e-mail private. As much as I love the idea of keeping my e-mail private, I rarely use PGP or S/MIME. This is because the people with whom I communicate don’t use PGP or S/MIME. To improve this situation, I’ve...

Keeping E‐mail Private

I can’t think of anyone who would argue that keeping e‐mail private is of little import or an easy task. I use e‐mail as storage for personal information, for authentication, and for communicating when I want the communications to be private. Such private information...