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CodingSecure coding

Applied crypto & auth

Medium3 min read

Questions it teaches

Salted SHA-256 password hashEasy12 min Breached password detectorEasy10 min Validate email formatEasy12 min Caesar cipher decryptionEasy12 min Constant-time string equalityEasy12 min Password strength validatorEasy12 min Base64url encodingEasy12 min Allowlist input sanitizationEasy10 min

Related

Secure coding Arrays and strings Security review Specs and prompts Backend internals

Builds on: Arrays and strings

Arrays & in-place tricks3 min Hash maps & sets3 min

Leads to: Security review

Security vulnerabilities3 min Hardcoded secrets3 min

Related: Specs and prompts

Prompting & writing specs3 min Describing your own practice6 min

Related: Backend internals

Encoding and schema evolution4 min MAC addresses4 min

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