RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

RFC 2104 is a foundational document in the realm of cryptography and security. This RFC document was published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in February 1997 and introduced HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code), a mechanism for generating a cryptographic hash that ensures both message integrity and authenticity. What…

What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is a scripting language commonly used in web browsers in order to make content interactive (and it is not related to the Java programming language). JavaScript is not the only language used to make content interactive (since some interactive content relies solely on CSS and CSS variants); however, it…

What is Node.js?

This post is assumes you are familiar with JavaScript, if you are not please see my blog post "What is JavaScript". Node.js is a very popular cross-platform, open source, JavaScript runtime built on top of Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine which developers can use to create a variety of…