LevelDB & Crypto

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Overview

Dive into cryptography fundamentals and LevelDB to build stronger, more secure applications! Code with James Halliday as you pair modern cryptography and the modular NoSQL databases of LevelDB to help you fortify your communications systems.

Syllabus

Introducing LevelDB
Methods and Lexicographically
Organizing Keys
Secondary Indexes
Inserting Data
Adding and Querying Data
Subleveldown
Level-Livefeed
Designing Modules
Best Practices
Q&A: IndexedDB vs. LocalStorage
Hashes
Approaches to Cryptography
Sodium and Chloride
Using Sodium
Secret-Handshake
merkle DAGs
Working with merkle DAGs
Introducing Kappa Architecture
Using Hyperlog
Database Replication and Duplex Streams
Hyperlog-index
Hyperkv and Hyperlog-sodium
Kappa Architecture Examples
WebRTC Swarm with Hyperlogs

Taught by

James Halliday

Computer Science / Cryptography

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LevelDB & Crypto

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