Encrypt and decrypt files from Windows command prompt
A command line utility to encrypt and decrypt files in-place or to a new file
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Npp Tail
A plugin for Notepad++ that automatically scrolls the text to show updated file contents.
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Using AWS CloudHSM
This post discusses how to configure AWS CloudHSM with Nginx. It also discusses why you might want to use CloudHSM and alternatives.
AWS Secrets Manager
The blog post explores the use of AWS Secrets Manager - what problem it solves, how we store secrets using the AWS Management Console, configurations required for reading secrets and application code to read secrets.
Using JWT authentication in ASP.NET Core Web API
This blog posts discusses JSON Web Tokens and how they can be used for securing your Asp.NET Core Web API application.
Custom authentication schemes in ASP.NET Core
This blog posts demonstrates how a custom authentication scheme can be used in ASP.Net Core Web API.
Creating encrypted folders in Windows
A lot of times we need to hold data files at a particular location for further processing. Data in motion is usually protected quite well these days (using HTTPS) but a lot us aren't too careful about data-at-rest. This blog post discusses the NTFS encrypted file system functionality and a couple of related APIs for storing files securely on a Windows box.