{"id":5677,"date":"2012-08-12T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2012-08-12T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T19:14:31","slug":"a-tour-of-commoncrypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/a-tour-of-commoncrypto\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tour of CommonCrypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2012-08-10-a-tour-of-commoncrypto.html\">Mike Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2012-08-10-a-tour-of-commoncrypto.html\"><p>CommonCrypto is a convenient library provided with Mac OS X and iOS that provides a range of cryptographic primitives. It provides cryptographic hashes, message-authentication codes and key-derivation functions based on those hashes, and symmetric encryption. It's not a fully-featured cryptography library like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssl.org\/\">OpenSSL<\/a>, as it's missing more complex features such as public key cryptography and common protocols like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\">TLS<\/a>. However, if your needs fit within its capabilities, CommonCrypto is easy to use and requires no third-party code.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ash: CommonCrypto is a convenient library provided with Mac OS X and iOS that provides a range of cryptographic primitives. It provides cryptographic hashes, message-authentication codes and key-derivation functions based on those hashes, and symmetric encryption. It's not a fully-featured cryptography library like OpenSSL, as it's missing more complex features such as public key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}