How to Send Secret Messages

By Megan Kaczanowski in Encryption on

Cryptography is the science of using codes and ciphers to protect messages, at its most basic. Encryption is encoding messages with the intent of only allowing the intended recipient to understand the meaning of the message.…

WTF is HTTPS?

By Megan Kaczanowski in Encryption on

Security has a lot of acronyms. What do they mean? Let’s break them down into manageable bits. First, HTTPS is actually HTTP running with TLS or SSL over it. First, we’ll cover HTTP, then TLS and SSL.…