3 posts tagged with "Cryptography"

How can two people who've never met exchange secret information over an open network? It's a question that sounds impossible until you see the answer: public-key cryptography.

In my last post, I covered what a blockchain is conceptually: a distributed ledger that enables trust without a central authority. Now I want to dig into how it actually works. Understanding the mechanics helps explain why the system is hard to cheat.

I've been digging into blockchain lately, trying to get past the hype and understand what the technology actually does. The term gets thrown around a lot, usually in the same breath as cryptocurrency, but the underlying system is worth understanding on its own.