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Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (2010) [pdf] (bsdcan.org)
4 points by beefhash on Dec 24, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Is there an update for this?

Calling cpercival ...


It has aged remarkably well. I'm more open to considering ECC in cases where signature size or CPU performance matter, and I'd consider switching from AES to something based on Keccak (especially if you're considering replacing SHA2 with SHA3) but I think that all the recommendations I gave in 2010 remain solid albeit possibly erring slightly on the side of being too conservative.




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