Best of Encryption — August 2022

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   Supabase·4y

   Supabase Vault

   Supabase Vault is a Postgres extension for managing secrets and encryption inside your database. For self-hosting, pgsodium supports a variety of ways to place the root key into Postgres. To see the decrypted data, there is a special view created called vault. The actual raw key is not available to you in SQL, it is managed entirely outside of the SQL language in the Postgres server. If you take a backup or pause your project, that data remains encrypted.

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   freeCodeCamp·4y

   HTTP vs HTTPS – What's the Difference?

   HTTPS makes a secure connection by using a secure protocol that encrypts your data. For most websites, the best way to have HTTPS is by getting an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate or a TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate. When encrpytion and decryption happens in HTTPS, it becomes heavier.

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   Dev Genius·4y

   JWT Common Attacks

   JWT doesn’t use the good old cookies and sessions in authorization, instead it utilizes JSON web tokens cookies vs tokens JWT Structure JWT consists of 3 main parts. The Header is the top most part of the JWT token and it specifies which algorithm will be used in the signature part to generate the signature.

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