From the course: Programming Foundations: Secure Coding
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Cryptography issues
From the course: Programming Foundations: Secure Coding
Cryptography issues
- Cryptography is a very hard subject for most developers. Thankfully, those that do understand cryptography are very good at it and make things easier for the rest of us, assuming we follow the rules correctly. So let's start by talking about the security risks associated with broken cryptography. First and most common is the use of broken cryptographic routines. Now the term broken is a little overloaded here. When I say broken, most often it means that the algorithm has been cracked, theoretically can be cracked, or has a flaw that has been identified. Many developers implement an algorithm for encryption, hashing, or digital signatures that they have used before but it may no longer be considered safe. The mitigation for these flaws is quite simply to use the latest and greatest algorithms that serve the current and possibly future purposes. Now you don't need to be bleeding edge but you do need to use algorithms…
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