The Great Enlightened Society of Oculists
A mystifying 105 page handwritten volume, beautifully bound in a green-brown brocade paper and containing some 75,000 characters in a mix of Roman… Read More
Below is a list of updates, recommendations and new technologies for customers moving SAP applications onto Azure.
At the end of the blog is a checklist we recommend all customers follow wit… Read More
War is a situation where two sides flex their Amery and ammunition with no clear point in the battle. History has shown that war often led to both sides losing. But often these disasters hav… Read More
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Anand Shukla shares some tips to harden your web server’s SSL/TLS ciphers.I recently worked with a customer who had security requi… Read More
I have published 2 posts in the past on Client Certificate authentication.
Client Certificate Authentication (Part 1)
Client Certificate Authentication (Part 2)
In order to enable Client Ce… Read More
I wrote an article here about TLS 1.2 which listed out the cipher suite used to negotiate security settings (encryption) between a client and server via a Network Monitor trace. You ca… Read More
This is the second part of our series of articles about troubleshooting TLS / SSL communications problems when you make Http Web Request or WCF queries from your ASP.NET appli… Read More
In our first and second posts about troubleshooting the TLS / SSL problems, we worked to fix a "The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/… Read More
Morning does not lie but can be mis-interpreted. For instance, I could say good morning on a day I had spent up all night. I used to do that shit all the time. The lie is innocent. A black l… Read More
I have an App Service here (currentdotnetversion) that shows the output of the current (when I wrote this article) .NET version using C# code. Here is a partial code snippet:
protec… Read More
How can you tell what version of TLS is currently used for client connections? Simple question we’ve been asked as we prepare to ship the new OLE DB driver.
Starting with SQL Server 20… Read More
Overview
I ran into an interesting error that I had to debunk where a customer thought with HTTP/2 on Windows Server 2016 which has IIS 10 installed, that this caused the error above. … Read More
It's often convenient to SSH into your Web App container. In this post, I'll walk you through all of the details of doing so step-by-step.
The steps here apply to both App Service on Linux a… Read More
An Azure App Service is PaaS and synchronizes the clocks based on the hosting platform. As per this request, the drift may be up to 2 seconds and are synced once per week. That r… Read More
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Grown-again Christian
Many people think that hearing the words of Jesus and then saying the sinner’s prayer is all that’s needed for sa… Read More
Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1. It is the first public release of .NET Core 3. We have some exciting new features to share and would love your feedback. You can develop .NET… Read More
Georgia - New Elections Chief asked Lawmakers Wednesday for $150 Million to Replace the State's outdated Electronic Voting Machines. In doing so, he all but Closed the Door on a Hand-Marked… Read More
It's cold as shit.The cold autumn winds have just begun in Wuhan. They come mixed with rain that falls day after day. It's more difficult than what I am used to. At home I… Read More
Last week’s Disclosure regarding the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ 2018 Leak of Touchscreen Voting Machine Passwords just got a lot more confusing.
Well-regarded Cybe… Read More
If you’re reading this wondering if you should stop using AES-GCM in some standard protocol (TLS 1.3), the short answer is “No, you’re fine”.
I specialize in secur… Read More
A question I get asked frequently is, “How did you learn cryptography?”
I could certainly tell everyone my history as a self-taught programmer who discovered cryptography when… Read More
There are a lot of random topics I’ve wanted to write about since I started Dhole Moments, and for one reason or another, haven’t actually written about. I know from past experie… Read More
If you see the letters GNU in a systems design, and that system intersects with cryptography, I can almost guarantee that it will be badly designed to an alarming degree.
This is as true… Read More
There seems to be a lot of interest among software developers in the various cryptographic building blocks (block ciphers, hash functions, etc.), and more specifically how they stack up agai… Read More
Since the IETF’s CFRG decided to recommend OPAQUE as a next-generation Password Authenticated Key Exchange, there has been a lot of buzz in the cryptography community about committing… Read More
The cryptography and information security experts who read my blog probably wonder from time to time, “Why furries though?” which I’ve spent ample time answering and hopefu… Read More
As we look upon the sunset of a remarkably tiresome year, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about cryptographic wear-out.
What is cryptographic wear-out?
It’s the thresho… Read More
A few years ago, when the IETF’s Crypto Forum Research Group was deeply entrenched in debates about elliptic curves for security (which eventually culminated in RFC 7748 and RFC 8032)… Read More
Cryptographers and cryptography engineers love to talk about the latest attacks and how to mitigate them. LadderLeak breaks ECDSA with less than 1 bit of nonce leakage? Raccoon attack brings… Read More
NIST opened public comments on SP 800-108 Rev. 1 (the NIST recommendations for Key Derivation Functions) last month. The main thing that’s changed from the original document published… Read More
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If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already knew that I attended DEFCON 30 in Las Vegas.
If you were there in person, you probably also saw this particular nerd walking around:
T… Read More