It seems everyone has something to say about something. I rarely generalize to this extent but when it comes to advice, humans are inclined to be very generous. No matter how well intended, one’s advice often goes unheeded. Every parent knows what I’m talking about. In our efforts to have our loved ones avoid our painful mistakes, we sometimes become too earnest in trying to relay our hard earned wisdom to the next generation. Looking at my own forays into fatherhood, I found that my son not taking my advice has made parenting a less than rewarding experience for me. …

Yeah, dumb subject.  Maybe not.  Here’s the beef: I find the concept of hashing so fascinating that I felt compelled to blog about it, because it’s so interesting.  It is also absolutely critical to security and affects every single person who uses the internet.  I’ve always known this word was very important to security, but it has only been recently that I came to understand what it actually is. Hashing is, at its most basic, the process of taking a string of characters and converting it into another, seemingly random, string. It comes from the French word hacher, which means …