During TISafe‘s Security Officer training this month, while talking about cryptography, the Scytale technique came up.
This was one of the first cryptography method with historical registry, used by the Greeks (Spartans, more specifically) to cypher messages during military campaigns thus not letting the enemy know their moves even if the message carrier gets caught, tortured or killed.
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Found that great video at LearnSecurityOnline.com of a presentation by one of its founders, Joseph McCray at Saecur‘s DojoSec (monthly event hosted by Marcus Carey), earlier this year in February.
Joseph speaks in a very well-humorous way about “Advanced SQL Injection” covering from Error-based SQL Injection to Blind SQL Injection, pretty nasty and nice! Gives another good overview under what we developers should look when protecting our code.
Here is the video:
DojoSec Monthly Briefings – February 2009 – Joseph McCray from Marcus Carey on Vimeo.
Don’t forget to check out other DojoSec videos at Marcus Carey‘s Vimeo channel and LearnSecurityOnline.com to great security-related material!