As you probably know based on news from BUILD Windows conference last week, Roslyn, the new .NET Compiler Platform with code analysis APIs for C# and VB.NET, has been pushed to Preview phase and open sourced.
Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to deathLess words more action at Part 2: Should we make a working group to kill X.509? and the group. I’m not a cryptographer; nor am I a hard core C guru; nor have I invented some brilliant library that gives me street cred to talk about this stuff. I’m a nobody.
14 SQL Server Indexing Questions You Were Too Shy To AskOne of the first things one needs to understand well about SQL Server is indexes, but somehow many of the basic questions don't often get asked or answered much on forums.
when AES(?) = ? --- a crypto-binary magic tricka detailed presentation on AngeCryption (getting a valid JPG after encrypting a JPG) - slides, src & PoCs: https://corkami.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/angecryption/ - PoC||GTFO downloads: http://openwall.
www.suspekt.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lesserknownsecurityproblemsinphpWith thousands of icons being uploaded to Iconfinder.com every month, the risk of pirated content also increases. To keep out the swindlers we have been working on a new clever image duplication technique.
Why You Might Want to Store Your Passwords in Plain TextUPDATED April 2, 2014: This was an April Fools Joke. Read. Laugh. Learn. And don’t store your passwords in plain-text. It’s a horrible idea. As Stormpath is a security company, specifically focusing on user management — we often get questions about password hashing, database security, etc.
How to Correctly Detect Credit Card TypeMost card type detection tutorials and libraries use regular expressions without references, often omitting or incorrectly detecting card types. This guide explains the card type detection process, cites sources, and analyzes the detection algorithm and user interface of Creditcard.
Analysis Paralysis: Over-thinking and Knowing Too Much to Just CODELately, I've been noticing that the more experience I gain, the longer it takes me to complete projects, or certain tasks in a project. I'm not going senile yet. It's just that I've seen so many different ways in which things can go wrong.
MinuteLabs.ioWe teamed up with PHD Comics to help explain fusion energy! Play around with the temperature, confinement, and density to get the protons to fuse and release energy. You can also watch the PHD Comics video for an explanation! No two chaotic pendulums are alike.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.