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The winner of SHA-3 contest
There’s a new standard hash algorithm in town, its official title is SHA-3 but its birth name is Keccak. NIST announced yesterday the winner of a long contest, that selected from many submissions the 5 algorithms most apt to substitute the current SHA-2 hash method, and from those 5 Keccak emerged as a victor. As I wrote in […]
WhatsApp is broken, really broken | fileperms
September 19, 2012
WhatsApp is broken, really broken | fileperms. This article explains in details many security problems of WhatsApp, the widely used instant messaging application. To summarize: The mobile number is sent in plain text over the network The username of the account is the mobile number The password can be derived either from the MAC address […]
Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
September 16, 2012
I really think that education is the silver bullet, and this TED talk shows the effort of the best universities to bring education to everyone thanks to the modern and affordable technologies that we have available right now. Online education is not a substitute for teachers and classrooms, but it can scale and complement the […]
afreak.ca » Safeguarding your laptop with encryption, passwords, and behaviour
September 15, 2012
A collection of very thoughtful measures to protect your data when you take your laptop around. It doesn’t cover international-spy-level security, but everything suggested can be put into place by any computer geek that is worried of data and identity theft, in order to achieve a reasonable protection. afreak.ca » Safeguarding your laptop with encryption, […]
Fake Dawn: an Android app to wake up gently
July 23, 2012
I present you my first Android app: Fake Dawn. Fake Dawn is an alarm that gradually increases brightness and sound volume to lead you out of deep sleep and wake you up gently. There’s plenty of medical research indicating that our sleep rhythm is influenced by light. Usually we are impacting negatively our sleep pattern […]
Google Drive is here!
April 25, 2012
Your Google Drive is not ready yet Well, almost here… Here is a quick comparison on some of the remote storage and file sync solutions that I consider important: Online Service Win Mac Linux Android iPhone Web Client-side Encryption Initial Space Client Source Server Source Google Drive Yes Yes No Yes Soon Yes No 5GB […]
How programmers can easily choose strong passwords
April 22, 2012
Choosing a password is always a trade-off between security and usability. Programmers can shift this compromise thanks to some qualities of their work. The idea is to use lines of code as passwords.
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