SSL Handshake Protocol

Phase 1: Establish security capabilities
Phase 2: Server authentication and key exchange
Phase 3: Client authentication and key exchange
Phase 4: Finish

Encryption Techniques

This semester, I’m taking ISA 662, Intro to Information Security, and here are some of the encryption techniques we discuss in class.

Blind Signatures
Blind signatures are used in situations where an author wants to get his or her message signed by a third party without revealing any information about the message to this party. They have [...]

My First Experience with Secured Application Development

Before I forget all the cool things that I learned today, I better write them now. I attended my second Microsoft training workshop today. It was on secured application development. I have never had much experience in writing secured code, and I must admit it was a pretty cool learning experience for me.
I woke [...]