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Randall Degges

Camp Counselor

Useful Cryptography, an Introduction

CANCELED

cryptography

security

web development

Prerequisites

Attendees should be intermediate developers or higher -- the talk will introduce them to cryptography concepts and show them how to use them properly in a simple way, but prior development experience is required.

Take Aways

Learn how to securely store passwords, use hash functions, generate secure random numbers, and encrypt sensitive data.

Supporting Resources

AWS Encryption SDKs

A link to AWS' encryption SDKs. If you are using AWS and want to securely encrypt data symmetrically, this is what you'll want to use.
Serious Cryptography (book)

One of the best books on modern cryptography, written by the famous cryptographer JP Aumasson (author of the argon2 password hashing algorithm).
libsodium

A modern cryptography library that makes it relatively simple to hash passwords, encrypt data, etc.

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