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Matteo Strada

mstrada.meadded August 2026

Digital Randomness and AES

Matteo Strada15 May 2025

Every time I used a random() function in Python or other programming languages, I found myself wondering how it actually produced a random value, and what it was based on.

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Pattern matching and YARA rules

Matteo Strada1 Mar 2025

What is Pattern Matching? Pattern matching is the process of identifying specific sequences or structures within a larger set of data.

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Follow the Money and Bitcoin tracking

Matteo Strada2 Jun 2024

Follow the money “Follow the money” is a financial investigation technique based on tracking illicit financial flows and transaction steps to uncover the source and destination of fraud, money...

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Digital Steganography

Matteo Strada4 Feb 2024

Steganography is a powerful tool for concealing sensitive data. Unlike cryptography, which focuses on encrypting messages to render them unreadable, steganography aims to conceal the very presence...

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First post

Matteo Strada1 Feb 2024

Hi! In this first post, I’d like to share the philosophy behind this blog and the kind of content you can expect to find here.

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