Blogs

Tags > encryption

The Watering Hole - Speciality Counseling

But little did any of them know that Eve was secretly listening in on the whole conversation...

Wayner security flip gets real-life play in Wesabe's Grendel

A security trick documented by Peter Wayner in the books Beautiful Security and Translucent Databases was also discovered and used by Wesabe.

Four short links: 8 October 2009

Linux Baby Rocker -- inventive use of a CD drive and the eject command ... (via Hacker News) I Like Unicorn Because It's Unix -- forceful rant about the need to rediscover Unix systems programming. Reminds me of the Varnish notes where the author explains that it works better because it uses the operating system instead of recreating it...

Four short links: 23 July 2009

Google Wave Federation Protocol -- the interesting part of Wave for me is the system for keeping databases coherent. There's a reference implementationl. I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much -- the post that redeemed Fake Steve Jobs in my eyes. We all know that there's no fucking way in the world we should have microwave...

Dramatic Increase in Number of Tor Clients from Iran: Interview with Tor Project and the EFF

The Tor Project produces an anonymous proxy services which allows users to evade surveillance. In this interview, Andrew Lewman talks about the Tor Project and discusses some statistics that show its increased use from with Iran. This article also includes some questions and answers with the EFF about the legal implications of running an open proxy server.

Introducing Nitro-LM "Lite"

        I've been consulting for Simplified Logic the creators of Nitro-LM full time for the past two years. Nitro-LM is a licensing and encryption solution for software written in C/C++, Java, Eclipse, Eclipse Plugins, and Adobe...

Encryption in Flex Applications 3 - NitroLM SWF Encryption

NitroLM (Nitromation License Manager) is a commercial product developed by Simplified Logic, Inc. (SLI) for managing users, products, notifications, and source code protection for applications. It started off as an internal tool to protect SLI’s 3D engineering design and...

Encryption in Flex Applications 2 - SWC AS3 Library Encryption

In this article, we’ll go over an example using Interfaces, Factories, and Encryption to protect code in a SWC library from being easily decompiled.

Encryption in Flex Applications 1 - Simulate EncryptedLocalStore

In the RIA world, Flex and AIR applications have really taken off. With that has come increased adoption by Fortune 500 companies and new enterprise-level apps taking advantage of the Adobe Flash platform. Application and data security should always be a concern of the Flex/AIR developer. The level of paranoia the developer should implement must be weighed against the goals of the project.

TrueCrypt 5.1: Open Source File and Device Encryption Goodness

TrueCrypt 5.1 lets you encrypt and secure files and folders very easily and quickly. The encrypted data can also be used on Linux and Microsoft Windows computers with TrueCrypt on it. Since it only became available for Mac OS X this year, I thought I'd provide a brief introduction to this amazing free Open Source encryption tool.