Specify Hugo Version In Netlify

Thinkinginbytes.com is generated using Hugo and hosted by Netlify. Netlify watches the site’s repo on Github and commits trigger a site build process. I’ll post more details about hosting a Hugo site with Netlify later. Site development is local. To view the site on a local machine, Hugo must be installed. It is likely that your local version of Hugo is versions ahead of the default Netlify Hugo version. This version mismatch may cause Netlify builds to fail. You may need to specify which version of Hugo you want Netlify to use.

Thoughts On Choices And Life

• The Good
• The Bad
• The Balance
• Footnotes

Occasionally, I see a social media post¹²³ re-quoting:

Hard Choices, Easy Life
Easy Choices, Hard Life

Proving Congruence For Fun

Background

I want to understand the math behind asymmetric cryptography.¹ This field relies heavily on Modular Arithmetic.² I bought an undergraduate math textbook for self-study. This article is a record of a proof exercise in the book. It is also a good exercise in writing math equations using LaTeX.

A Piecewise Hashing Example

• The Problem
• Cryptographic Hashing
• What Is Piecewise Hashing
• The Obvious Weakness
• Final Thoughts
• References

NOTE: ChatGPT was used to create some portions of the code in this article. The words are mine.

The Problem

When cybersecurity analysts find malicious files, they share their finding with the greater security community. They run the file through a cryptographic hashing function and share the results of this function, called a hash. The hash is a kind of fingerprint that identifies the file based on the information contained in the file. Others can look through their environments, hash their files, and compare the results to hunt for the malicious file.