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SSL termination: stunnel, nginx & stud | Vincent Bernat
Thoughts on SSL termination (with a link to an update).
nginx  performance  security  ssl 
9 weeks ago by mcroydon
Peter Gutmann's Home Page
Includes the biggest crypto deck ever.
crypto  people  research  security 
august 2011 by mcroydon
Preventing timing attacks in Python
A simple non-linear comparison function to prevent timing attacks when checking passwords.
security  encryption  python 
may 2011 by mcroydon
Coffee on the Keyboard » Bleach, HTML sanitizer and auto-linker
"Bleach is a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer and auto-linker in Python, built on html5lib, for AMO and SUMO and released under the BSD license."
development  html  html5  oss  mozilla  library  parser  python  web  software  url  text  security 
october 2010 by mcroydon
Principles for Standardized REST Authentication - O'Reilly Broadcast
I want to live in this fantasty world where RESTful authentication isn't so hard or repetitive.
api  architecture  auth  authentication  dev  cloud  development  restful  rest  read  programming  patterns  oauth  http  distributed  security  soa  soap  toread  webservices 
may 2010 by mcroydon
python-saml2 - Project Hosting on Google Code
A relatively recent ASF-licensed Python SAML 2.0 library.
identity  library  opensource  programming  python  saml  security  xml 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Introduction
Here's the one-minute introduction: "Imagine that it's fifteen years from now. Somebody announces that he's built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say 'Oh my God, what do we do?' Well, we still have secret-key cryptography, and we still have some public-key systems. There's hash trees. There's NTRU. There's McEliece. There's multivariate-quadratic systems. But we need more experience with these. We need algorithms. We need paddings, like OAEP. We need protocols. We need software, working software for these systems. We need speedups. We need to know what kind of key sizes to use. So come to PQCrypto and figure these things out before somebody builds a quantum computer."
research  security  math  computing  information  cryptography  key  theory  public  encryption  crypto  mathematics  hash  to_read  quantum  number 
march 2010 by mcroydon
Django | Cross Site Request Forgery protection | Django Documentation
I was caught unawares by this one on a project tracking trunk. It's definitely A Good Thing(tm) but is going to require some template work as part of an upgrade to Django 1.2.
web  django  webdev  javascript  ajax  hack  security  django-1.2 
october 2009 by mcroydon
bobby-tables.com: A guide to preventing SQL injection
How to avoid little bobby tables in several languages. There are more subtle attacks but handling the basics right is the first step.
programming  development  database  webdev  howto  computer  rails  hack  security  coding  hacks  fun  databases  geek  hacking  mysql  tips  sql  db  bugs  c#  injection  tables  sqlinjection  sql-injection 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Django | Weblog | Security updates released
An impressive and quick reaction from all involved. If you're running Django 1.0 or greater, now is the time to update to the latest maintenance release for the version you are using.
development  django  security  patch 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Thread: Does Amazon EC2 meet PCI Compliance guidelines?
While Amazon's cloud is reasonably secure, it'll never reach PCI Level 1 compliance. So don't save or store credit card information on EC2 or S3.
amazon  security  s3  ecommerce  ec2  cloud  processing  payment  PCI 
august 2009 by mcroydon
iPhone-like password fields using jQuery // DECAF° blog für digitale kommunikation
Alas, this isn't an iphone UI pattern but a mobile UI pattern that has been in place for several years. It makes sense and it's way better than a bunch of stuff you can't see though.
programming  design  tools  webdev  apple  javascript  ui  security  usability  iphone  cool  ideas  plugin  jquery  js  forms  form  password  field  like  passwords 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Chrooted SSH HowTo - Page 2 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
This includes a script similar to the process I went through to bootstrap a chroot.
projects  software  linux  python  howto  security  sysadmin  network  administration  ssh  chroot 
april 2009 by mcroydon
Chris Shiflett: Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability
Explanation of in-browser PDF XSS vulnerability.
webdev  security  pdf 
november 2008 by mcroydon
Schneier on Security: The Skein Hash Function
The paper on Skein was pretty readable. Either that or I know more about cryptography than I thought I did. I love that Skein performs insanely fast on 64 bit processors, acceptably fast on 32 bit processors and runs at all on 8-bit AVR chips.
programming  software  development  news  code  security  sysadmin  tech  algorithms  algorithm  cool  source  cryptography  crypto  article  hash  encryption  tips  nist  schneier  skein  function  sha 
november 2008 by mcroydon
Keyczar
Nice to see this see the light of day. i remember reading (or watching) about this several months back.
python  software  programming  development  google  library  tools  java  api  security  apache  cryptography  crypto  encryption  opensource  apl  c++  toolkit  crypt 
august 2008 by mcroydon
Adobe - Developer Center : Security changes in Flash Player 9
"Starting in version 9,0,115,0, Flash Player will ignore any HTTP policy file that is not sent with a Content-Type value that gives some assurance that the file is intended to be a text file." Either text/<something> or application/xml are required, other
adobe  flash  programming  security 
january 2008 by mcroydon
Schneier on Security: Social-Engineering Bank Robbery
Seriously, social engineering can sting. That bank in Wheaton isn't 10 minutes from the house that I grew up in.
security 
january 2008 by mcroydon
pyinotify - filesystem monitoring in Python with inotify
Very nice. If only there were a cross-platform wrapper that handled various OSes filesystem notification systems.
dev  event  events  filesystem  file  interface  library  linux  module  monitor  programming  python  security  shell  software  sysadmin  system  tagging  utility  unix 
january 2008 by mcroydon
Building a UAV for photo mapping - Autopilot - DIY Drones
"I had planned to use the Pico-Pilot and Pico-GPS for the autopilot in my UAV, but I have now discovered that since Jan 2007, they have been classed as MILITARY technology and are controlled by US Export License regulations."
uav  export  security  regulations  sad 
december 2007 by mcroydon
IRC Analysis
"IRC is a big, dangerous city full of crime. I just happen to live with a bunch of people in one of the nice streets in the suburbs. There are lots of suburbs."
computer  computers  internet  irc  network  news  technology  security 
december 2007 by mcroydon
Adding Math to List of Security Threats - New York Times
"Mr. Shamir is the S in RSA; he, Ronald Rivest and Leonard Adleman developed it in 1977."
crypography  math  security 
november 2007 by mcroydon
Docuticker » Guide to Secure Web Services
Focused on SOAP and WS-crap but chapter 5 and 6 and appendix A are pretty interesting even if you take a more lightweight approach.
web-services  security  soap  soa 
september 2007 by mcroydon
Bitfrost - OLPCWiki
The security model for the OLPC is absolutely fascinating.
documentation  hardware  interface  laptop  linux  olpc  os  programming  protocols  python  security  storage  toread  unix  wiki 
march 2007 by mcroydon
5o9 Inc - Making Web Applications Location, Device & User Aware
Good idea, though the patent pending part kinda scares me. I've thought for a long time that X-LATITUDE/X-LONGITUDE headers could be used for that missing context.
dev  geo  location  mobile  security  software  toread  tracking  wireless 
march 2007 by mcroydon
Never store passwords in a database!
Wow, that's horrible. Friends don't let friends store passwords without salting and hashing them first.
database  development  hash  internet  password  programming  reddit  security  software  tech  theft  web  web2.0  webdev 
february 2007 by mcroydon
» The case for OpenID | Digital ID World | ZDNet.com
OpenID rocks, I wish that more people used it and deployed it.
identity  openid  security  standards  technology 
december 2006 by mcroydon
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