Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...

COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...

Encoding is a process of transforming the data into different parameters to enhance its compatibility, usefulness, and to transmit it through various systems and applications. Therefore, the main ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

What Is a Hash Function? A hash function is an arithmetic function that transforms an input (or a ‘message’) into a string of a predetermined number of bytes. The output, such as a hash code or a hash ...

Time and time again we hear about big companies (*cough*eBay*cough*) having serious security breaches, which result in users’ private information being exposed. When a company says it has suffered an ...

This package provides Pydantic field annotations that encrypt, decrypt, and hash field values. If you install this package with the sqlalchemy extra, you can use the built-in SQLAlchemy integration ...