Peter Smirnoff (guest)

Peter is an internationally active cryptography scientist. Peter has a long experience in Cryptography, both in industry and research. Peter has worked on the Windows Crypto API, OpenSSL, digital signatures, X 509 Certificates etc. He has profound implementation experience with PKCS-11 smart-cards as well on Linux and Windows platforms.

Summary of the Practical Key Management Challenges Behind Symmetric Cryptography in Financial Institutions 

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Symmetric Cryptography in Financial Institutions: Key Management Challenges

Picture of Peter Smirnoff (guest) Peter Smirnoff (guest): 04. April 2022

This article addresses some of the challenges of symmetric cryptography as applied in banks, describing how it works and what are its unbeaten...

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Understanding Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)

Picture of Peter Smirnoff (guest) Peter Smirnoff (guest): 24. September 2018

I once consulted a bank about their painstakingly slow cryptography and security processing system. After a week of searching, I examined the...

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Private-life-of-keys

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The private life of private keys

Picture of Peter Smirnoff (guest) Peter Smirnoff (guest): 20. June 2018

A private cryptographic key is an extremely sensitive piece of information, and requires a whole set of special security measures to protect it. This...

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Cryptographic Operations - Best Practices To Make Your System Secure

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Cryptographic Operations: Best Practices To Make Your System Secure

Picture of Peter Smirnoff (guest) Peter Smirnoff (guest): 01. November 2017

This article outlines cryptographic operations and best practices you should follow to make your applications or systems secure.

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Manual vs. Automated Key Management

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Manual vs. Automated Key Management

Picture of Peter Smirnoff (guest) Peter Smirnoff (guest): 12. October 2017

This article evaluates and compares manual and automated cryptographic key management. It looks at security-related issues as well as organizational...

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