atoponce

Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

thiloplanz

Zero knowledge databases

The idea

The idea is to provide a database as a service to end users in such a way that no one except the user herself can access the data, not even the hosting provider or the database administrator.

Advantages

• A privacy- and/or security-conscious user will have more trust in such a setup.
• The service provider cannot be coerced to release the data they were trusted with, and he cannot be held responsible for the content he is storing.

rodneyrehm

some tools for diagrams in software documentation

Diagrams For Documentation

Obvious Choices

• Graphviz
• Pandoc

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