Hello wonderful FPC/Lazarus community, you rock! -- lots and lots of useful info on the forum! Very friendly and helpful people! One of the best programming forums on the net. Keep it up!
Now, coming to my question:
has anyone on this forum any experience with authentication systems or, more in general, with designing security protocols? I am particularly interested in how to hand-code a system, rather than using a prepackaged protocol or a standard library. My purpose is to learn as much as I can on the topic and grok the inner mechanisms.
Just reading the documentation of existing libraries is not much useful, because all you learn is how to use their APIs.
At this stage my approach is not result-oriented, but learning-oriented. I want to experiment with building some proof-of-concept system of my own, and learn how things work by trial and error.
Does any user here have learning material (and possibly some FreePascal/Delphi code) about this topic?
Any recommendation of authentication / security-centered teaching books/tutorials that explain well the basic concepts and guidelines? Something that can be practically useful for building your own security system.
If such learning material also had on FreePascal/Delphi code samples, it would be great.
Cheers and thanks to everyone!
--vicot