The Salty Hash
Tips, tricks, pointers and perspectives on building secure, testable, maintainable apps. Thoughts and observations about security and privacy from IronCore Labs.
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.
Latest Posts
Build Your Own Application-Layer Encryption?
Non-obvious Considerations and Why It’s More Complex Than It May Seem
Using MySQL’s Built-in Encryption: A Terrible Idea
6 Reasons To Avoid MySQL’s Native Encryption Functions
Application-layer Encryption (ALE) Demo Using a Notes App
It can be difficult to demo encryption. If you do it right, the encryption is invisible to users, but the hackers only see garbage data…
How to talk to the business about AI security risks
If you’re on a security or engineering team and you’ve read our Securing Gen-AI White Paper, you probably understand that the addition of…
Using Application-Layer Encryption to Restrict Insider Access
Application-layer or application-level encryption (ALE) is a pattern for encrypting data before sending it to a data store in order to…
Snowflake and AT&T Breaches Were Preventable With Application-layer Encryption
Misleading Encryption Claims and a Lack of “Security by Default” are the Root Causes
Analysis of Apple’s New AI Private Compute Cloud
The Good and the Bad of Their Approach to Private Server-side LLMs
Securing AI: The Stack You Need to Protect Your GenAI Systems
Enterprise-grade GenAI systems need these 7 things
The Encrypted Messenger Wars
Telegram vs. Signal: what really matters
5 Things SaaS Companies Get Wrong with BYOK
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is an acronym without a clear and widely agreed-upon definition. It can mean anything from uploading some key…
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