One-Time Pad
I hear about this a lot when looking into cryptography, usually in reference to the possibility of perfect security. So what is a one-time pad?
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Cryptography
Old School Cryptography
Cryptography, the methodology of concealing the content of messages, comes from the Greek root words kryptos, meaning hidden and graphikos, meaning writin...
Methodology
Side-Channel Attacks
A side-channel attack is any attack that is based on gaining information from the physical system that a process is being implemented on. Rather than an expl...
Vulnerability
Dirty COW CVE-2016-5195
Why is it called Dirty COW? COW stands for Copy-On-Write, and the exploit is so named because it’s a race condition that was found in the way the Linux kerne...
Capture the Flag
PicoCTF 2018
General Skills General Warmup 1 ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII uses numbers to represent various characters required for...
Privacy
Privacy Measures
There is a philosophical principle that explains that each event, each living being, each object, each person, or each circumstance has the characteristic of...
UNIX
Shell Commands
These lists will be all over the internet, just lists of commands and what they do. This is just a comprehensive list of the ones that I’ve used or found use...