security | Daniel P. Clark

January 9, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Encryption in Ruby on Rails

When I had first looked into encrypting data in my Rails database I found on a couple of forms, and StackOverflow issues, they recommended two gems: attr_encrypted and strongbox. Besides that there where a few do it yourself examples with Ruby’s built-in OpenSSL library and some other small libraries like AESCrypt. After examining these gems…

March 12, 2013 by Daniel P. Clark

Part 2: Stepping Up With Tor

Alright. So you’re in Linux and you’ve got Firefox running through your Tor client. There are now two more things you need. One is to update to the latest version of Tor. And secondly to use any other application through Tor rather then just Firefox. So. Here you are on that free wifi again. And…

March 10, 2013 by Daniel P. Clark

Privacy is Available Online.

One thing that people lack when they use the internet is privacy. Well the good news is is that there is a solution for that. Keeping your sessions encrypted and private is recommended to help prevent your personal information from being stolen. Do you enjoy free wifi hotspots? Well now you can use them securely…