Random Thoughts

Ruby’s openssl gem is more or less the de facto source of cryptography in Ruby.

Over the past few releases in .NET, formerly .NET Core, there has been progress on making cryptographic primitives like AES, SHA, etc. better for developers to use.

In .NET Core 2.1 a small but well-received feature was the ability to “safely” allocate a segment of data on the stack, using stackalloc, when used with Span<T>.

.NET Core 3.0 introduced over a dozen new APIs for importing and exporting RSA keys in different formats.

One of the nice things about .NET Core being open source is following along with some of the issues that people report.

Since C# 7 there have been a lot of point releases that contain all kinds of goodies.

Visual Studio 2019 preview 2 was released a few days ago and I took the time to install it.

.NET Core 3.0 is tentatively set to include a new API for securely generating a random integer bound to a specific range.

.NET Core introduced FixedTimeEquals which I have personally found to be very helpful.

Over the past few years I’ve started to sour on x86 architecture for just about everything.