At the end of 2018, I had a pleasure to give a talk at Testwarez - the oldest testing-oriented conference organized in Poland. The recording recently appeared on YouTube, so I decided to take this opportunity to figure out what has changed through the past few months in terms of tools that I presented.
The goal of my talk was to present some practices and open source tools for improving the overall security of Java-based projects.
A typical luggage case padlock with 3 rings and TSA (backdoor) lock on the left A combination of 3 digits - this is the level of protection offered by the vast majority of luggage cases on the market. 3 digits secret code, that should keep all your personal belongings safe at the aircraft, lobby and hotel room. Lots to expect for just 3 digits…
Let’s say you already selected your secret code and you’re just going on your holiday.
The cryptographic world changed a lot since 2008 when Google’s Keyczar library showed up. However, one thing is still the same - effective cryptography is really hard to implement. Keyczar library was a quite successful attempt to provide easy to use crypto solutions based on current security standards to Java, Python and C++. Now, after 9 years of its development, the future doesn’t look so bright.
Ain’t no sunshine when it’s old In the late 2016 Keyczar’s maintainers announced that: