Tag
signatures
- Jul 10, 2026 Multi-Pattern Matching in Network Intrusion Detection How signature engines match thousands of byte patterns against a reassembled stream with one pass, why normalisation decides what the engine actually sees, and where matching still fails. security
- Feb 16, 2024 Behavioral Detection versus Indicator Matching in Alert Pipelines How signature rules and behavioral rules differ in what they can express, why indicator matching decays, and what the cost of a rule is in false positives per unit of signal. security
- Feb 8, 2023 Signed Cookie Tokens and the Limits of Statelessness How a signed token encodes session facts, what the signature actually guarantees, and which operations stop being possible once the server keeps no record. backend systems