Somehow found myself watching it a few weeks ago. In it the biggest realisation I had was that I would have been just as likely as the developers at flickr, vimeo etc at punching in `sha1(secret_key + 'foobarbarbaz')` for computing a MAC. Thus began my foray into cryptography. My reading list is a little backlogged but 'Cryptography Engineering' is bubbling its way to the top.
My biggest takeaway so far is to just stay the hell away from crypto, but I work with other developers on big codebases, so I need the knowledge firepower to convince them to stay the hell away from crypto.
That being the case, there wasn't much I wasn't familiar with in the article, but since I'm a crypto newbie it was nice to go over those concepts again.
http://vimeo.com/9260794
Somehow found myself watching it a few weeks ago. In it the biggest realisation I had was that I would have been just as likely as the developers at flickr, vimeo etc at punching in `sha1(secret_key + 'foobarbarbaz')` for computing a MAC. Thus began my foray into cryptography. My reading list is a little backlogged but 'Cryptography Engineering' is bubbling its way to the top.
My biggest takeaway so far is to just stay the hell away from crypto, but I work with other developers on big codebases, so I need the knowledge firepower to convince them to stay the hell away from crypto.
That being the case, there wasn't much I wasn't familiar with in the article, but since I'm a crypto newbie it was nice to go over those concepts again.