15: Cryptography: Hashing, Strong Numbers and Digital Signatures

Development Best Practices

In this episode we welcome back Robert Boedigheimer, Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author and MDC Speaker for the final part in our series on cryptography. If you haven't listened to part one (Episode 13) and two (Episode 14), we'd suggest listening to those two first.
0:50 The problem of securing private keys
3:15 Introduction to Hashing Functions
4:15 What could go wrong with hashing?
5:10 How to remediate hashing issues?
7:00 Cryptographically strong random numbers for key generation
9:45 Digital signatures
Troy Hunt's aggregation site of compromised usernames and passwords: https://haveibeenpwned.com
Robert's full video on Cryptography 101: https://youtu.be/ahgtAvjWYUI
Minnesota Developers Conference: https://mndevconf.com/
Find Robert at @boedie on Twitter.
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