{"id":869,"date":"2015-03-27T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=869"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:03:52","slug":"matasanto-crypto-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=869","title":{"rendered":"Matasanto Crypto Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Matasanto Crypto Challenge is a series of exercises to gain familiarity with cryptography development practises in general, and broadening one&#8217;s appreciation of the importance of secure software design. As described on <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopals.com\/\">the author&#8217;s site:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve built a collection of 48 exercises that demonstrate attacks on real-world crypto. This is a different way to learn about crypto than taking a class or reading a book. We give you problems to solve. They&#8217;re derived from weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. We give you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts yourself. When you&#8217;re finished, you&#8217;ll not only have learned a good deal about how cryptosystems are built, but you&#8217;ll also understand how they&#8217;re attacked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I progress through the challenge, I will be posting my solutions, likely in C, C++, assembler, and Python.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Matasanto Crypto Challenge is a series of exercises to gain familiarity with cryptography development practises in general, and broadening one&#8217;s appreciation of the importance of secure software design. As described on the author&#8217;s site: We&#8217;ve built a collection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=869\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1078,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869\/revisions\/875"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}