Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Have You Ever Heard of the Fernet Encryption Algorithm?“:
In cryptography, there is a gold rule that states to not develop your own algorithm because… it will be probably weak and broken! They are strong algorithms (like AES) that do a great job so why reinvent the wheel? However, there are projects that try to develop new algorithms. One of them is Fernet, described like this… [Read more]