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2016
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 12 Report
This week marks the completion of my Google Summer of Code 2016 project Pubkey Encrypt. So I’ve spent the past 3 months building this module for Drupal 8 in ...
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 11 Report
As you might’ve already guessed, Pubkey Encrypt is a Google Summer of Code’2016 sponsored project. As a part of the GSoC program, I’ve spent the last 2.5 mon...
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 10 Report
I started this week’s work by finishing the integration of cookies into my module. To give you some context, Pubkey Encrypt now uses cookies for temporarily ...
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 9 Report
I started the week by testing Field Encrypt module with my project Pubkey Encrypt. So Pubkey Encrypt provides support for encrypting data with users login cr...
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 8 Report
A discussion with Mehul Gupta (@therealssj), who is also a Google Summer of Code 2016 participant for Drupal, kicked off this week. So he is working on porti...
GSoC'16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 7 Report
This week’s work started by the integration of Travis CI into the Github repo of Pubkey Encrypt. Initially, we thought that we’d move the project from Github...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 6 Report
Half of the Google Summer of Code coding period has passed and my project now has all the core functionality in it. For those who don’t know, Pubkey Encrypt ...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 5 Report
This week I worked on making the module a bit flexible via integrating pluggable systems into it. This is something we had planned initially while writing th...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 4 Report
I started the week by providing test coverage for functionalities I added to the module in week 3. Since the main functionality I added was the automatic gen...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 3 Report
The basic idea behind my project Pubkey Encrypt is to encrypt data using users’ login credentials. A tight integration with the Key module is one of the most...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 2 Report
I started the week iterating over last week’s work as per the reviews of my mentors Adam Bergstein (@nerdstein) and Colan Schwartz (@colan). They were happy ...
GSoC’16 – Pubkey Encrypt – Week 1 Report
I started the week writing a concise architectural document for the module. Though I had already written a timeline-based roadmap for the module, Adam (@nerd...
GSoC'2016 -- Community Bonding Period
The past few weeks have been quite amazing for me. Getting accepted for GSoC indeed felt like a dream come true, and the feeling has still not gone. But the ...
Google Summer of Code 2016 -- Accepted
So the results for Google Summer of Code 2016 came, and I got accepted =D
2015
A New & Simple Technique for Securely Storing Passwords in Databases
Storing website passwords securely in databases has turned out to be a major challenge than anyone had ever imagined. 13 million passwords stored by the chea...
Hello World
I’ve been thinking of starting a blog for a very long time, finally it’s here. Currently, I am committing myself on doing one blog post per month though it’d...