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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

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Posts tagged encryption

For questions related to the encryption process, that is transforming information (plaintext) into an unreadable form (ciphertext) using an encryption algorithm combined with a parameter (encryption key).

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Q&A Is this AES/CBC scheme, where the IV does not need to be known during decryption, insecure or does it have any other disadvantages?

Usually a random IV is used for encryption with AES in CBC mode, so that key/IV pairs are not reused, which would be a vulnerability. During decryption, the IV of the encryption is required. If de...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Holden‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A How can the Caesar cipher be implemented in Java?

The Caesar cipher is a substitution cipher in which the letters of an ordered alphabet are cyclically shifted by a given number. A detailed description can be found e.g. here. Let u be the index o...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Holden‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Is there any breaking change in regard to TrustServerCertificate property of System.Data.SqlClient for .NET 5?

I have recently an issue at work after upgrading an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application to .NET 5. It worked correctly on all environments (e.g. PreProd, Prod) when targeting 3.1, but failed on Prod only ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭