The Rietta Blog
01/09/2015
Two new videos! How a Ruby on Rails developer can help prevent a Data Breach
by Frank Rietta
Videos of the data breaches and Ruby on Rails are now up on YouTube! Level up on your security knowledge because good software security needs to be a moral stance!
10/02/2014
Raspberry Pi crypto key management project!
by Frank Rietta
A dedicated offline crypto key management system OpenPGP and an SSL Certificate Authority set up for air-gapped operations using a Raspberry Pi B.
09/21/2014
Software security is a moral duty
by Frank Rietta
All too often robust security is put off because the cost of prevention is felt upfront & the cost of breach is to realized at an uncertain future time. But there is another way.
09/19/2014
Learn how Upworthy scaled a Ruby on Rails application to serve massive traffic
by Frank Rietta
Upworthy's backend is built on Ruby on Rails with an effective use of the Fastly CDN to deliver very high performance at scale.
07/27/2014
New OpenPGP Key, 0xC004BAE3 (2014)
by Frank Rietta
After 11 years, I have chosen to transition my OpenPGP/GnuPG cryptographic key pair from a 1024-bit to a 4096-bit RSA key. The new key is ID 0xC004BAE3. Please review the fingerprint and update your keychain accordingly.
07/07/2014
Introduction to OpenPGP: Decrypt this Message
by Frank Rietta
In this first part of Introduction to OpenPGP, learn to password protect a file using GnuPG, which supports symmetric encryption in addition to its more powerful asymmetric mode.