Effective Modern C++ Quick Review and Sale

For those of you familiar with Scott Meyers amazing Effective C++ and Effective STL (both of which I highly recommend to C++ programmers),...

Memory management in C and auto allocating sprintf() - asprintf()

Memory Management Memory management in C is viewed by some to be quite tricky. One needs to work with pointers that can point anywhere in me...

Avoid incorrect ChaCha20 implementations

ChaCha20 is a stream cipher which is gaining a lot of popularity of late. Practically every library today which provides ciphers seems to ...

Protecting private keys

Web servers use private keys which they alone have in order to secure connections with users. Private keys must be protected at all costs. ...

Copying code != Copying implementation

A little over a week ago, I wrote an article about some common porting mistakes for a new library - LibreSSL. I've since received multi...

LibreSSL: The good and the bad

OpenSSL & LibreSSL OpenBSD recently forked the popular SSL/TLS library OpenSSL into LibreSSL . Most of the reaction to this that I...

Designing C++ functions to write/save to any storage mechanism

Problem A common issue when dealing with a custom object or any kind of data is to create some sort of save functionality with it, perhaps w...

OAuth - A great way to cripple your API

Intro  A few years ago, the big social networking sites were looking for a secure way to allow their users to safely use any and all untrust...