Tag: Crypto
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What is Open Banking and PSD2?
Posted on August 24, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Open Banking (aka PSD2) forces the biggest UK banks to open up their precious data, which could mean big changes for the way we use money. By Rowland Manthorpe.
Tags cio cloud crypto software fintech
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Blockchain solutions make financial services fairer, faster
Posted on August 8, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Sean Bennett wrote this article for IBM about how they applied blockchain technology to traditional fiat currencies.
Tags crypto blockchain fintech ibm software infosec
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The differences between Bitcoin and Libra should matter to policymakers
Posted on July 8, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Peter van Valkenburgh article about differences between Bitcoin and Facebook's Libra. The two have different design goals, work in different ways, and raise different regulatory questions.
Tags crypto fintech data-science
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Blockchain No-Brainer: Ownership in the digital era
Posted on June 7, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Dominic Perini article about his view on digital asset ownership, provenance and handling. In order to understand how the notion of ownership is currently perceived in society, author proposes to briefly analyse the journey that has brought us to the present stage and the factors which have contributed to the evolution of our perceptions.
Tags crypto blockchain fintech
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PHP encryption methods for passwords and other sensitive data
Posted on October 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ashley Rich published this article about various methods of protecting sensitive data in PHP. There is a range of different encryption methods in use today, the most common being hashing, secret key encryption and public key encryption. Also in PHP 7.2+ you have cryptography extension Sodium which should simplify vastly complicated cryptography landscape.
Tags php infosec crypto
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Encrypting vs. signing with OpenPGP. What's the difference?
Posted on October 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brad Wyro thoughts on encryption versus signing with OpenPGP. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. In the article author helps to answer following question: how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private?
Tags infosec crypto messaging
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Enterprise integration for Ethereum
Posted on July 27, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Bilgin Ibryam article about Ethereum usage in enterprise. Ethereum is distributed and decentralized, but it is mostly a closed system with the embedded ledger, the currency, and the executing nodes. The most popular open source Java integration library -- Apache Camel supports Ethereum's JSON-RPC API now.
Tags blockchain cio crypto distributed fintech
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Blockchain explained
Posted on July 17, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Zach Church interviewed Christian Catalini - an MIT expert - on why distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies have the potential to affect every industry.
Tags crypto blockchain fintech
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Crypto Tools for DevOps: git-crypt
Posted on April 18, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Eric Mann's short and sweet article about crypto tools for DevOps -- help explain a specific utility that empowers developers to keep credentials and the code that uses them in the same place.
Tags crypto devops