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SSL/TLS for dummies part 4 – Understanding the TLS Handshake Protocol
In the 3rd part of the blog series Certificate Authorities were discussed in depth. If anyone is here without reading that post I highly recommend to read that. In this post the whole…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 3 – Understanding Certificate Authority
In the second part of the series we have discussed about the SSL/TLS Key exchange in terms of Diffie Hellman algorithm. We ended up thinking the need of a third person who could…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 2 – Understanding key exchange algorithm
In the last part of the blog series we have discussed about the basic concepts of cryptography. It includes Hashing, Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption and so on. I haven’t spoken anything about SSL…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 1 : Ciphersuite, Hashing,Encryption
As a security enthusiast, I always fond of the working of SSL (TLS these days). It took me days to understand the very basic working of this complex protocol. But once you understand the…
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All about Robots – All you need to know about robots.txt
Today in this blog post we will discuss deeply about the Robot exclusion standard or simply robot.txt. Probably you know the definition, Robots.txt is a text file put on the website to tell…
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Cookies for dummies Part 3: Understanding security flags – Secure, HttpOnly and SameSite
In the previous articles of this series we discussed basic concepts of cookies. How to view and edit cookies, types of cookies such as session cookies and third party cookies, etc. If you…
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Cookies for dummies Part 2: Third-party tracking cookie
In the first part of the series, we have discussed the basics of a cookie. Recollecting the main points from the last blog post, we discussed: Cookies are tiny chunks of data stored…
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Cookies for dummies: Part 1 basic concepts
When I started studying about web applications, one of the topics where I spent a hell lot of time was cookies. Once you clearly understand the concept of cookies, I think you are…