Understanding Proof-of-Work

I was curious to study the behaviour of the Proof-of-Work protocol in block-chains. The essence of POW is the use of a nonce as part of the payload being signed. In order to do this, I decided to test it out with a simple signing test program. The signature algorithm Read more…

Week #8 – SSL Client

This week I worked on the Generic HTTP Client with SSL. Initially I tried to run the original program provided by the MICROCHIP TCPIP stack. I enabled the STACK_USE_SSL_CLIENT in TCPIP ETH97.h found in TCPIP Config.h . Then I added the RSA.c and ARCFOUR.c files which were necessary in order Read more…