Do you want to know a secret? You probably do, question is, would you like it if anyone else knew your secret as well? I am guessing not. That is why, on the Internet, we use encryption for the data that we send and receive, just to make sure that someone else is not listening in on our conversation. Encryption is not only used when directly communicating with each other, it is also used for something we call “integrity”, a.k.a. “I want to make sure that I get what the other end is sending without anyone modifying it in transit”. So, use encryption anywhere! read on while we explore the basics on how data is securely transferred from one place to another using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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I sometimes get nostalgic about the technology that was hot and happening a few years ago, this is especially true for Windows To Go. A nice little piece of technology that allows Windows to boot from a specially crafted USB stick. When it was introduced, it required specific USB pen drives as, at the time, USB equipped with internal fast storage was not really that common. Compared to what’s available now it was very expensive and limited to a few vendors. Although the UI for creating a WTG pen drives has been removed it’s really not that hard to manually create one.
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The Windows operating systems from its humble beginning up to the point where it is today has gone through tremendous chances to battle all the emerging security threads. Among those are the most rudimentary forms of disruption up to the very sophisticated state sponsored attacks which can lead to the destabilization of society. As the saying goes in the industry, it’s always a rat race.
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