Apr 21 2021

When cryptography attacks – how TLS helps malware hide in plain sight

Category: CryptograghyDISC @ 8:36 am

Lots of things that we rely on, and that are generally regarded as bringing value, convenience and benefit to our lives…

…can be used for harm as well as good.

Even the proverbial double-edged sword, which theoretically gave ancient warriors twice as much fighting power by having twice as much attack surface, turned out to be, well, a double-edged sword.

With no “safe edge” at the rear, a double-edged sword that was mishandled, or driven back by an assailant’s counter-attack, became a direct threat to the person wielding it instead of to their opponent.

Sadly, there are lots of metaphorically double-edged swords amidst modern technology.

And no IT technology feels quite as double-edged as encryption, the process of scrambling data securely in such a way that only the intended recipient can ever unscramble it later on.

Almost everything about encryption makes it feel as though it is both immeasurably useful and dispiritingly dangerous at the same time.

The encryption dilemma

Tags: TLS

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