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Cryptography concepts that we all developers missed. But we should have known.

Vivek Agrawal on November 08, 2024

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Deveshree Mishrekar • Nov 9 • Edited

Congratulations for this great contribution towards not just the coder community but also for the non-coders. I went through your course and found it detailed yet easy to understand. I truly appreciate your work and I am sure that all this coming from one of the top contributors of freecodecamp community will surely be meaningful.
All the best👍🙌

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 9

Thanks for the appreciating words! Means a ton! ❤️

Doug Wilson • Nov 12

Well done! And thanks!

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 14 • Edited

Thanks Doug. I am really glad you liked it! 😊

Do you feel the course was valuable to you?

Doug Wilson • Nov 15

Yes, I think your focus on the externals, interfaces, configuration, etc is insightful and makes sense. While I find it interesting to understand as much as I can about how these algorithms work internally, choosing the right one for the job and using it correctly is much more important.

Vivek Agrawal • Nov 15

Yup. The best thing to do is to use a library or function that your framework recommends. For example, Django has some recommendations around storing passwords, so if we follow that, we will be fine :D

emil marian • Nov 12

I never understood why, I need to know this. I use it every day, but still, I never had the chance to get into something that required me to know how password hashing works, for example. Looking forward part 2, especially for the TLS part.
Thank you!