Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

The latest information from the team that develops cryptographically secure PHP software.

The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software

Everything a developer needs to know to build secure software in the PHP programming language in the year 2018


How to Generate Secure Random Numbers in Various Programming Languages

This blog post will maintain the industry best practices for securely generating random data in Ruby, Node.js, Java, etc.


One Login To Rule them All - Seamless and Secure Cross-Domain Authentication

How to authenticate a user on multiple domains without violating the Same Origin Policy.


How to Safely Implement Cryptography Features in Any Application

No matter what language you're developing in, there's really only one cryptography library that shines above the rest.


You Wouldn't Base64 a Password - Cryptography Decoded

A human-readable overview of commonly misused cryptography terms and fundamental concepts.


Common Uses for Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers

Some useful things that can be built with a CSPRNG.


If You're Typing the Word MCRYPT Into Your PHP Code, You're Doing It Wrong

Alternative title: "Libmcrypt considered harmful." You should use libsodium if you can, or OpenSSL if you can't.


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