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Cryptography concepts that we all developers missed. But we should have known.

Vivek Agrawal on November 08, 2024

Let me come straight to the point before I tell the story behind it. People in the open source community know me by -- vkweb. I have created a f...

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Deveshree Mishrekar • Nov 9 • Edited

Congratulations for this great contribution towards not just the coder community but also for the non-coders. I went through your course and found it detailed yet easy to understand. I truly appreciate your work and I am sure that all this coming from one of the top contributors of freecodecamp community will surely be meaningful.
All the best👍🙌

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 9

Thanks for the appreciating words! Means a ton! ❤️

emil marian • Nov 12

I never understood why, I need to know this. I use it every day, but still, I never had the chance to get into something that required me to know how password hashing works, for example. Looking forward part 2, especially for the TLS part.
Thank you!

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 12

Do you understand now why and how password hashing works? :D Was cryptography-for-devs.github.io/ helpful?

For updates regarding the second part, please follow me on Twitter, I will post updates there when / if I do: twitter.com/vkwebdev

Doug Wilson • Nov 12

Well done! And thanks!

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 14 • Edited

Thanks Doug. I am really glad you liked it! 😊

Do you feel the course was valuable to you?

Doug Wilson • Nov 15

Yes, I think your focus on the externals, interfaces, configuration, etc is insightful and makes sense. While I find it interesting to understand as much as I can about how these algorithms work internally, choosing the right one for the job and using it correctly is much more important.

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 15

Yup. The best thing to do is to use a library or function that your framework recommends. For example, Django has some recommendations around storing passwords, so if we follow that, we will be fine :D