Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog

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

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.


What's New in Defuse Security's PHP Encryption Library Version 2

Our contributions to defuse/php-encryption and how it affects future behavior


Solve All Your Cryptography Problems in 3 Easy Steps

A layman's introduction to using Halite, our libsodium wrapper


Keyggdrasil, Continuum, and the Cryptography Powering CMS Airship

A deep dive into the cryptography protocols that will secure your blog, should you choose to deploy CMS Airship.


Go PHP 7 - Our Commitment to Maintaining our Open Source Projects

This is our promise to the community to support PHP 5 projects until EOL, and then no later.


Securely Implementing (De)Serialization in PHP

Deserializing a string into a data structure is a simple task riddled with security holes.


Introducing CMS Airship: A Secure Content Management System for the Modern Web

The beta release for a secure-by-default CMS built by Paragon Initiative Enterprises


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 Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016

Salted Password Hashing with Argon2, Scrypt, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2


On The Design and Implementation of a Stealth Backdoor for Web Applications

Or: How I won the password hashing category for the Underhanded Crypto Contest at DEFCON 23.


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