Author Archives: Babu Srinivasan

About Babu Srinivasan

My interests are in computer security, cryptography, functional programming and general aviation. I occasionally write articles on these and other topics in my blog.

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: computing shared key

Elliptic Curve Cryptography: computing shared key If Alice and Bob want to exchange encrypted messages, they need to first agree on a Key. This shared key (also known as symmetric… Read more »

Monkey business — write once, deploy on iOS, Android and Windows with Xamarin

Microsoft and Nokia missed the boat on tablets and smartphones. Microsoft’s Surface RT tablets were priced very high, and there were not many takers, with the result that Microsoft wrote… Read more »

Blog and more for less than the price of 2 lattes — DigitalOcean

VPS (Virtual private server) hosting that costs less than typical shared-hosting? Sounds too good to be true? I wondered about this and raised this issue a while back on the… Read more »

Perils of Unreachable Code — was it deliberate?

There is no substitute for detailed code reviews, more so if the code is related to security. Any changes to such code, however minor, should be reviewed. However, in addition,… Read more »