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Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js
In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js.
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Featuring
- Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
- Rachel White – Twitter, GitHub
- Alex Sexton – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links
The topics covered in today’s show:
- Security on the web
- SHA-1 is broken
- Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
Featured Project — AR.js.
- Stop using SHA-1
- The effects of SHA-1 on Git
- Multiformats
- Multihash and JS Multihash
- Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely
- The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
- Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
- Experimenting with async/await
- co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way.
- AR.js
Picks from the panel
Mikeal:
Alex:
Rachel: