Practical Cryptography With Go
Practical Cryptography With Go
About the Book
This is an introduction to cryptography for developers. It assumes that you aren't looking for cryptographic theories, but practical ways to use cryptography in your projects. It covers the basic standard building blocks, and includes some sample code to help you get started.
The example code for the book is available on Github, and is ISC licensed.
The book is currently being rewritten; 100% of the royalties go to the EFF.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Engineering concerns and platform security
- Basic security
- Specifications
- On errors
- Input sanitisation
- Memory
- Randomness
- Time
- Side channels
- Privacy and anonymity
- Trusted computing
- Virtual environments
- Public key infrastructure
- What cryptography does not provide
- Data lifetimes
- Options, knobs, and dials
- Compatibility
- Conclusion
- Further reading
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Chapter 3: Symmetric Security
- Indistinguishability
- Authenticity and integrity
- NaCl
- AES-GCM
- AES-CTR with HMAC
- AES-CBC
- Messages v. streams
- Conclusions
- Further reading
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Chapter 4: Secure Channels and Key Exchange
- Secure channel
- Password-based key derivation
- Asymmetric key exchange: ECDH
- NIST curves
- Other key exchange methods
- Practical: File encryptor
- Further reading
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Chapter 5: Digital signatures
- Cryptographic hashing algorithms
- Forward secrecy
- Ed25519
- ECDSA
- RSA
- Conclusions
- Practical: Sessions with identities
- Further reading
- Appendix: Crypto Review of Chapters
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