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OAuth Explained: From OAuth 1.0 to OAuth 2.0 and Beyond

Every time you click "Sign in with Google" or let a scheduling app read your calendar, you're using OAuth. It's the invisible plumbing behind millions of "Connect your account" buttons — and one of the most misunderstood protocols on the web. In this

The Mathematics of Elliptic Curve Cryptography

In 1985, Neal Koblitz and Victor Miller independently proposed using elliptic curves for cryptography. Their idea seemed exotic at the time—why use curves when simple multiplication works? Four decades later, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) secures your Bitcoin wallet, your TLS connections, and your iPhone's Secure Enclave. This

AES: Deep Dive

In 1997, the U.S. government launched a worldwide competition to find a replacement for the aging DES (Data Encryption Standard). Four years later, they chose Rijndael—a cipher designed by two Belgian cryptographers—and renamed it AES. Today, AES protects everything from your hard drive to your bank transactions.

RIPEMD: Deep Dive

In the early 1990s, Europe wanted its own cryptographic primitives—independent of American designs. The result was RIPEMD, a hash function born from a multinational research project that would eventually find its way into Bitcoin. This is the complete story of the RIPEMD family. Origins: The RIPE Project (1988-1992) RIPEMD

HAVAL: From Hero to Zero

In the 1990s, cryptographers were searching for hash functions that could offer flexibility without sacrificing security. HAVAL emerged as an ambitious answer—a hash function that let users choose their own security parameters. For a brief moment, it seemed like the future of hashing. Then came 2004. This is the

How to Create RAID 1 Arrays in Fedora

I recently became the proud owner of an Apple MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro chip, which meant my old PC got a new life as a home server running Fedora. The server houses six hard drives that I configured into three RAID 1 arrays for redundant storage. This guide

Hill Cipher: The Mathematics of Matrix Encryption

What if you could crack an encrypted military message by guessing just nine letters? The Hill cipher—invented in 1929 by mathematician Lester S. Hill—is elegant, mathematically beautiful, and fatally flawed. It was the first practical polygraphic cipher, encrypting multiple letters at once using matrix multiplication. This post explains