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Helping Users with Practical Advice to Protect their Digital Devices

Hello Packages, Parsers, and Programs,

In his 1945 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography,” Claude Shannon described two ways to frustrate statistical analysis – diffusion and confusion.

Diffusion disconnects the structure of a plaintext message from its encrypted ciphertext.

It prevents attackers from gaining an advantage when seeing encrypted messages, no matter how many they see.

Confusion makes user interfaces obscure and the consequences of mistakes harmful.

It prevents users from understanding pop-up warnings and is why Johnny can’t encrypt.