Month: May 2021
When it comes to guarantee data confidentiality on the wire or on the disk we cannot be exempt to know how to use cryptography: this post provides a quick guide of both symmetric and asymmetric cryptography along with an overview of their bricks: RSA and DSA keys, Elliptic Curves keys, PGP Keys, Message Digest, HMAC, digital signature and encipherment. The aim is to provide the necessary terms and concepts to understand how to operate with cryptographic tools, providing examples with openssl.
Don’t be tempted to skip this post: you would miss something valuable. Of course most of us know how to operate a filesystem, but the underlying details of POSIX filesystems are not broadly known by most of the people. In this post I describe them quite accurately, trying to keep at a level that may intrigue, but avoiding to be too theoretical. Having such an expertise is certainly one of the things that make the difference from a technician and a skilled professional. In addition to that, this skill may really save your life when facing weird things that sometimes may arise.