October 26, 2019 – Blanch on Code

Coding Style Tip: Use Named Arguments When Passing null to Methods

I noticed this pattern in play while working on the System.Text.Json code in .NET Core (corefx) and immediately fell in love with it. Consider this method signature: Lots of complex stuff being passed into this method and much of it is optional. That’s kind of a “code smell” right? This method is a heavy-lifter or […]

Decrypting Apple Pay Payment Blob Using .NET – Part 4: Decrypt the data.

Series Intro: Decrypting Apple Pay Payment Blob Using .NET Finally, we’ve arrived at Step 4 on Apple’s guide for decrypting the payment blob, which is the actual decryption. This is where all our efforts will finally bear fruit. What kind of fruit? Apples, of course. Our guides have instructed us as such: For ECC (EC_v1), […]