Cryptography Fundamentals

🌟Overview

Get started with Cryptography by learning the most fundamental ciphers in the game. To keep things simple, these ciphers are written in pure vanilla JavaScript.

Getting Started

• A brief introduction to cryptography

🔑 Fun with Ciphers

Ciphers have been around for 1000's of years and have been used for military purposes since humans learned to write. And while many of them aren't secure by today's standards, they are still interesting to learn about.

• How to implement ROT13 in JavaScript
• How to Implement a Substitution Cipher in JavaScript
• Implementing a Caesar Cipher in JavaScript
• Implementing the Rail Fence Cipher in JavaScript

🔒Hashing and Encryption

• How To Encrypt Passwords Using SHA-256 In C# And .NET
• Using bcrypt to hash passwords in JavaScript