The Salty Hash

Tips, tricks, pointers and perspectives on building secure, testable, maintainable apps. Thoughts and observations about security and privacy from IronCore Labs.

Editors
Patrick Walsh

Scholar, dreamer, creator, adventurer, hacker, leader and observer. Advocate for privacy and security. CEO IronCore Labs.

Riah Lawry

Collector of ideas and facts. Often inspired by long walks. Name sounds like Mariah, but it’s Riah.

Bob Wall

CTO at IronCore Labs, a data security startup. Into encryption, cloud computing, AI & machine learning, other geeky stuff. Music junkie.

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