on a plane

awesome dedication: "To the memory of Arthur J. Zoebelein, former Chief of the Office of Cryptologic Archives and History, National Security Agency"

author claims that the method of encryptiong data before transmission and decrypting afterwards is unreliable..

"The primary goal of cryptography is to secure important data as it passes through a medium that may not be secure itself. Usually, that medium is a computer network.  "

special PCI cards just for speeding up cryptography processes

command line access!

CA - certificate authority

"RAND_screen can be called periodically to gather entropy as well. The function will take a snapshot of the contents of the screen, generate a hash for each scan-line, and use the hash value as entropy. This function should not be called too frequently for a couple of reasons. One reason is that the screen won't change much, which can lead to predictability. The other reason is that the function is not particularly fast. "

OpenSSL can also be a certificate authority......makes me kind of doubt security on the web. ANyone has access to this software, so anyone can verify certificates?