iGoogle has a nice gadget that is a password generator. One master password plus a task specific seed spits out a cryptographically decent password of numbers and characters (the common denominator across most websites ( Read more... )

There were two interesting things I focused on this week at work:

• We are teaching a class for our customers this week, and will be running our software product for training purposes on several servers from Amazon Web Services. I wrote a ton of bash scripts to handle everything but the actual launching of the instances (even at the measly amount of ( Read more... )

The most interesting aspect about the identification of similar subsections in files in Peer-to-Peer networks is the use of a combination of size and conceptual markers plus hashing that is called Rabin fingerprintingThat's clever and a useful trick to know. The rest (including the hashing, actually) is pretty much how anyone would have implemented ( Read more... )