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SSL Certificates, MD5, and the Verisign/RapidSSL Responce
The backbone of the problem is called `collisions’ in cryptospeak and and driven by the pigeonhole principle in mathspeak. Issue? The ability to create so-called rogue SSL certificates with vali… more →
Midnight in the Garden of Epsilon and Delta
Privacy Is Something You Take For Yourself
J. Q. McClintic wrote 10 months ago: Privacy . . . if you want to talk about a word that has sparked debate across the world, that one is … more →
SSL Certificates, MD5, and the Verisign/RapidSSL Responce
J. Q. McClintic wrote 11 months ago: The backbone of the problem is called `collisions’ in cryptospeak and and driven by the pigeon … more →
Once Again, Most Folks Have it Backwards
J. Q. McClintic wrote 11 months ago: In a discussion of password security, someone brought up a website listing the time to search the en … more →
Just How Insecure Are Dictionary Passwords?
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: Here I am again at one of my favorite passtimes: trying to tip sacred cows. In this case, by asking … more →
And This is News How?
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: The use of highly focused email-based attacks on high value targets is not news. As I already discus … more →
The Email Bomb
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: Reading an article from Business Week about the use of carefully crafted emails to target specific h … more →
Password Insecurity
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: I’m going to be honest, I have a new pet peeve when it comes to passwords: anyone who insists … more →
Distributed Assurance In an Open Source World
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: The other day I watched a video of Bruce Schneier’s talk on dual use technology on the compute … more →
Cutting Out The Root
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: As some of you know already, I’ve referenced Sun Tzu before when commenting on security-relate … more →
Cracking CAPTCHAs
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J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: Slashdot has a post indicating Gmail’s CAPTCHA has been cracked. For those otherwise not aware … more →
Torrent Encryption
J. Q. McClintic wrote 1 year ago: I was reading /. today, in particular the article about the war between Comcast and people who Torre … more →
