The What, Why and How of Software Security

Quite a few web applications encrypt query string values. This is generally done as an added measure to prevent unauthorized access. Since the end user cannot chose a value and then encrypt it, changing parameters becomes difficult. But encryption is Read More...

Modern symmetric block encryption algorithms need to satisfy a number of properties to be considered strong. One such property is the property of “Confusion”. What it means is that if an attacker is conducting an exhaustive key search, and if the key Read More...