Monthly Archives: October 2019

Both attacks refer to a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, in which an adversary – acting as a MITM – tries to inject data before the client is properly authenticated. This data is then passed to the application together with the data … Continue reading →

Salsa20 is a new variable-round stream cipher developed by Dan Bernstein in 2005. It is used in many Internet applications as a replacement for RC4 that has been shown to have statistical defects. ChaCha20 is a modified version of Salsa20 … Continue reading →