48 Dirty Little Secrets Cryptographers Don't Want You to Know
Explore 48 cryptographic attacks in this Black Hat conference talk by Thomas Ptacek and Big Ol Al. Dive into a comprehensive overview of the Matasano crypto challenges, a learning exercise completed by over 10,000 participants. Gain early access to all challenges and understand their real-world implications in software security. Examine implementations in various programming languages, from X86 assembly to Haskell, through a "Rosetta Code" site. Follow step-by-step explanations of exploit code for select attacks, covering topics such as block cipher mode selection, public key agreement algorithms, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, stream ciphers, and more. Enhance your cryptographic knowledge with insights into key strength, curve generators, and the Chinese remainder theorem.