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. ...

A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom

Last week, I wrote two articles pointing out issues with unofficial porting efforts of LibreSSL . In these articles, I highlighted some is...

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...