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Note Taking and Write-ups

Note Taking and Write-ups

Introduction: This is just going to be a quick post detailing my personal preferences for documentation in the hope that it may help a few people get started with write-ups, and perhaps introduce you to some great software! We’ll start by looking at a couple of pieces of software (Cherrytree and Flameshot) which, frankly, I couldn’t recommend more; then briefly discuss a few tips for writeups and documentation as a whole. Let’s start with the software. Software: Cherrytree Cherrytree is…

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RSA Encryption

RSA Encryption

Introduction: RSA (short for Rivest–Shamir–Adleman — named after its creators) is an asymmetric public-key encryption system that is very commonly used in real world applications. Despite its age (having been released in 1977), RSA encryption is still one of the most widely used asymmetric encryption algorithms in use today. Interestingly, it seems that an equivalent algorithm to RSA was created at GCHQ by James Ellis, Clifford Cocks, and Malcolm Williamson four years previously in 1973. I learnt the theory behind RSA encryption…

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