Nice Work If You Can Get It

I can see how the Flash-based photo gallery option in Lightroom is so popular. It’s dead easy to create one, and since the Flash interface hides original filenames, it makes it more difficult for people to steal original image files.
I was interested in another person’s photos because I wanted to view the EXIF data. […]

This RFC defines a NULL encryption algorithm for use in the IPsec ESP protocol. Since there’s not a lot of math involved, the writers got a little creative:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2410.html
The NULL encryption algorithm combines many of the best features of both block and stream ciphers, while still not requiring the transmission of an IV or analogous […]

I was reading this post on Slashdot about TiVO’s recently filed patent application on a “password you can’t hack“. I was just thinking… isn’t this basically a zero knowledge proof?
“Eventually, systems were devised that require the host to prove that it knows the password without actually revealing the password, thus allowing the host to […]

OK, that doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “Happy New Year”.
I’m hanging out in the office at RSA just waiting for people to call in. No one yet, hooray. I guess we’ll see if any doomsday predictions come true or not.

Current Mood:  tired

I did some Internet news reading recently and stumbled upon a series of articles and columns about the game Second Life. I thought, “another graphical MMORPG / ‘Sims’ clone that’s getting hype.” Well, in some ways I still think so, though this Wired column about copyright issues in the game caught my interest.
From […]

Silly me… the answer was right in front of me but I was mucking with the registry settings when I didn’t have to. Now maybe I can try to figure out why gaim doesn’t properly operate through our proxy, but SIM-IM client does (and hopefully “fix” it).

Thank goodness for the Internet… we covered this topic in cryptography class (and it was explained quite well), but this web page seems to spell it out equally well in plain English:
This method is based on Fermat´s little theorem. It is well known that for any prime number you choose, p, and any […]

I’m still thinking about this one, so more will show up in this post later. But here are some interesting candidates:
1) PowerElf II: http://www.greencomputer.com/solutions/school.shtml
2) Windows 2000 Academic licensed server
3) Ubuntu based server (home grown)
I really like what I see with the PowerElf, given that I’m considering cost of maintenance and labor. Any comments […]

Hmm… is Netfirms the best home for a Wordpress blog?  Getting mod_rewrite to behave nicely proved slightly painful:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49968 
I guess I can’t have the ultimate “Pretty Permalinks” after all. 

So far, I have really been interested in what rdiff-backup can do. Now I just have to set it up! I’ve got rdiff-backup working on my laptop and desktop at work, so now I need to connect my first client — a Solaris 9 system. I want to see how permissions are […]