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Demystifying Digital Cryptography: A Technical Dive into Securing the Digital Realm
Digital cryptography is a fascinating blend of mathematics, computer science, and engineering that keeps our online lives secure. From the AES-encrypted messages on your phone to the RSA-secured handshakes of your browser, it’s a technology that’s both deeply technical and profoundly impactful. By understanding its mechanisms—symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, and the… Read more
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Exploring CRYSTALS-Kyber1024: Unraveling Key Encapsulation Mechanisms in Digital Cryptography
As a technologist passionate about blockchain and post-quantum cryptography, I’ve been diving deep into the evolving landscape of secure communication. One of the most exciting developments in this space is CRYSTALS-Kyber1024, a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) designed to withstand the looming threat of quantum computers. Let's break down what KEMs are, explore the specifics of… Read more
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Unlocking the Future of Secure Signatures: SPHINCS+ and Stateless Hash-Based Cryptography
Digital cryptography is the backbone of secure communication in the modern world. At its core, cryptography relies on mathematical functions that are easy to compute in one direction but difficult to reverse. One such fundamental tool is the cryptographic hash function, which transforms input data into a fixed-size string, known as a hash, that appears random… Read more
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Introducing Zixt: The Blockchain-Powered Messaging App for a Secure Future
Zixt is a state-of-the-art, web-based messaging application engineered for unparalleled security and privacy. Built with post-quantum cryptography (Kyber1024, SPHINCS+), zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs), and encrypted DHT, Zixt protects communications and metadata against classical and quantum threats. It offers real-time multi-user message threads, secure file sharing, a proprietary blockchain ledger, and robust user management, running on Ubuntu… Read more