Today, I found an interesting article about password timing attacks. The basic point is that if you check a password one character at a time, the amount of time it takes to receive a "bad password" response tells you how many characters you got right.
As an example, imagine …
This weekend, my roommate asked me to make a website for him. I wrote it in PHP so I could just make some templates and he could import them, but it bothered me that I was rendering a static website with PHP. The easiest solution seemed to be running every …
I set up an SSL certificate for this site today and it was surprisingly easy.
Last time I wanted a free certificate, it was a huge pain. This time it was actually easy. A Google search for "ssl certificates stackoverflow" lead me to the Cheapest web certificates question …
My roommate's computer's clock has been broken since we first installed Linux on it. It was never a big deal, but it's been annoying me for a long time.
Recently, my laptop started to have a similar problem. A friend had used Windows on it, and so the clock was …