Scraping Amazon Reviews using Headless Chrome Browser and Python3
Posted on Mi 03 Oktober 2018 in Scraping • Tagged with Amazon, Reviews, Scraping
GoogleScraper Tutorial - How to scrape 1000 keywords with Google
Posted on Mi 05 September 2018 in GoogleScraper • Tagged with tutorial, GoogleScraper, scraping
Tutorial that teaches how to use GoogleScraper to scrape 1000 keywords with 10 selenium browsers.
Continue reading
Hide related products on shop page in Woocommerce
Posted on Do 30 August 2018 in Wordpress, WooCommerce, functions.php, CSS, related-products • Tagged with Wordpress, WooCommerce, functions.php, CSS, hide-related-products, disable related products
Introduction
I found many instructions and guides in the Internet that describe How to hide related products tab on shop page to be NOT WORKING!
It's a freaking pain in the ass to hide your related products tab on your shop page. The method to actually hide related products depends on the WooCommerce theme that you are using. In this article, we are going to present a method that provably works for every theme and WooCommerce version out there.
How to disable related products - Step by step guide
Step 1 …
Continue reading
Cryptographic properties of MACs and HMACs
Posted on Mo 20 August 2018 in Security, Cryptography, MAC, HMAC • Tagged with Math, MAC, HMAC
Introduction
Similarly as digital signatures, Message Authentication Codes provide message integrity and message authentication. When Alice generates a MAC and sends the message and MAC to Bob, Bob verifies that the message has integrity by calculating the MAC himself. He also authenticates the message, because only Alice could have generated the MAC.
Unlike digital signatures they do however not provide nonrepudiation, since all involved parties share the secret key \(k\). MAC's can be implemented using cryptographically secure hash functions (HMAC) or symmetric block ciphers like AES.
A MAC consists of …
Continue reading
Cryptographic Hash Functions
Posted on Sa 18 August 2018 in Security, Cryptography, Hash Functions • Tagged with Math, Integrity, Hash-Functions, Merkle-Damgård
Introduction
This blog post will introduce cryptographic hash functions. We are going to discuss the Merkle-Damgård construction which underlies many hash functions that were and are used nowadays. The MD4, MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-2 hash families are all functions that built on top of the Merkle-Damgård construction. Then we will introduce an alternative construction that was popularized during the publication of Keccak (SHA-3): The Sponge construction.
But what are cryptographic hash functions good for?
The general idea is to apply a unique and stable fingerprint to each input data \(x …
Continue reading
How to find large prime numbers for RSA with the Miller-Rabin Primality Test
Posted on So 12 August 2018 in Security, Cryptography • Tagged with Python, Primes, Math, RSA, asymmetric key cryptography, Miller-Rabin Primality Test, Fermat
Introduction
All sources for this blog post can be found in the Github repository about large primes. The most recent version of the sources may only be found in the Github repository.
It has been a long time since I found the energy to write a new blog post. In this article, I am going to dig into a interesting area of cryptography: The task to find large prime numbers. We hopefully are all familiar with the concept of prime numbers. Prime numbers are integers \(p\) which are dividable only …
Continue reading