In situations where a group of participants join together to split up a secret in a form of secret sharing, where the secret is devided into parts, giving each participant their own unique part. Together contributing to reconstruct the initial…
Encryption
A collection of 5 posts
Salt and Hash Example Using Python With Bcrypt on Alpine
This is a post on a example of how to hash a password with a salt. A salt in cryptography is a method that applies a one way function to hash data like passwords. The advantage of using salts is…
Encryption and Decryption with the PyCrypto module using the AES Cipher in Python
While I'm learning a lot about encryption at the moment, I wanted to test out encryption with the PyCrypto module in Python using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Symmetric Block Cipher. Installing PyCrypto: $ pip install pycrypto --user PyCrypto Example: Our…
Encryption and Decryption with Simple Crypt using Python
Today I wanted to encrypt sensitive information to not expose passwords, hostnames etc. I wanted to have a way to encrypt my strings with a master password and stumbled upon Simple Crypt. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.…
Using AWS SSM Parameter Store to Retrieve Secrets Encrypted by KMS using Python
Today we will use Amazon Web Services SSM Service to store secrets in their Parameter Store which we will encyrpt using KMS. Then we will read the data from SSM and decrypt using our KMS key. We will then end…