S.Lott -- Software Architect

PyCrypto Experience

Let me start with a wow. PyCrypto is very nice. Let me emphasize the add-ons that go with PyCrypto. These are as valuable as the package itself. Here's the story. I was working with a Java-based AES encrypter that used the "PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1" key generator algorithm. This was part of a …

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Password Encryption -- Short Answer: Don't.

First, read this.    Why passwords have never been weaker—and
crackers have never been
stronger.
There are numerous important lessons in this article.
One of the small lessons is that changing your password every sixty or
ninety days is farcical.  The rainbow table algorithms can crack a
badly-done password in …

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Privacy and Encryption

See Massachusetts Says Encrypt It All!

This gives a hint as to the future of personal information collection and dissemination.

This is potentially A Bad Thing.

I don't see a problem with using SSL to encrypt "over the wire" data transfers. I don't see a problem with adding layers of …

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