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Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is a pseudo-random string which consists of 32 letters, numbers (0-9), and 4 hyphens to separate letters. These letters are randomly generated. In probability theory, this value is unique and can be used as a secret and session cookie, etc. Example GUID The following line provides a GUID. as we can … Read more
checksum is a function used to calculate some value for given data. As we see check is used to check given data with the calculated sum. Data may be little or very big like 1 MB, 10 MB, etc. but the checksum value will be the same size but different for each different type of data. the … Read more
OpenSSL is most popular open source cryptography library which provides a lot of tools, libraries, algorithms about cryptography. It is mostly known with Secure Socket Layers (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. Supported Encryption Algorithms Encryption is used to make given data unreadable by the intruders. It is mainly used for confidentiality. OpenSSL supports … Read more
Security is important part of the today IT and gains more respect from IT world. Hashing is a security measure to protect and check our data. In this tutorial we will look how to use hash with tables and strings. What is Hash Hash is a function where provided data will be converted into another … Read more
OpenSSL provides read different type of certificate and encoding formats. OpenSSL supports certificate formats like RSA, X509, PCKS12 etc. We will look how to read these certificate formats with OpenSSL. Read RSA Private Key RSA is popular format use to create asymmetric key pairs those named public and private key. We can use rsa verb to … Read more
OpenSSL provides cryptographic libraries and features. We can use OpenSSL from reading DER files to generate random numbers. But one of the most used feature is creating a Self Signed Certificate. , Self Signed Certificate X509 is the certificate standard used in internet and corporate today. X509 certificates are designed to create a tree like … Read more
DER and PEM are formats used in X509 and other certificates to store Public, Private Keys and other related information. OpenSSL provides a lot of features for manipulating PEM and DER certificates. We can use OpenSSL to convert DER to PEM format and vice versa. Convert DER Format To PEM Format For RSA Key We … Read more
OpenSSL is very long running project which have passed a lot of versions. Newer versions provides more features, bug fixes and security patches. For example in year 2014 a serious security hole Heart Bleed discovered in OpenSSL versions and affected OpenSSL libraries are defined as versions.Following versions was vulnerable to Hear Bleed. OpenSSL 1.0.1 trough … Read more
OpenSSL is popular security library used by a lot of products, applications, vendors. OpenSSL provides libraries for the most of the programming languages. Python is popular programming language too. We can use OpenSSL library in Python applications. In this tutorial we will develop an example application that uses OpenSSL Python Library and bindings. Install OpenSSL … Read more
OpenSSL provides different features about security and certificates. Public and Private Key cryptography also supported by OpenSSL. Websites, Firewalls and other applications uses Certificates in order to encrypt their network traffic or authenticate each other. In this tutorial we will look how to create Certificate Signing Request. Generate RSA Key Now we assume we do … Read more