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Two channel authentication
I’m no Bruce Schneier, so I welcome the comments of any more informed and/or more intelligent readers (which shouldn’t be too hard ;-)). Two factor authentication is the buzz these days, it’s the silver bullet of the security industry. To provide a short explanation (which will almost certainly leave out essential facts and get others…
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Responsinble behavior
Disclaimer: the views expressed in this post (and on the entire blog) do not necessarily reflect the opinion of my past or current employers. These are entirely my own opinions. Know your audience! and Never underestimate human stupidity! these are two ideas missed by Alex Eckelberry in his latest blog post. Before I give you…
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Hack the Gibson – special edition – aka lucky 13
I’ve been absent lately with the whole Hack the Gibson series, completely missing the 100th episode for example, not because I wouldn’t have material, but because I’m very busy (or very lazy, depending on your viewpoint :-)). However I just wanted to let you know about a usefull resource, which unfortunately seems to be dead…
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Serving up authenticated static files
Two components which are usually found in web applications are authentication and static files. In this post I will try to show how these two interact. The post will refer to PHP and Apache specifically, since these are the platforms I’m familiar with, however the ideas are generally applicable. The advantages of static files are:…
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Compressed HTTP
The HTTP standard allows for the delivered content to be compressed (to be more precise it allows for it to be encoded in different ways, one of the encoding being compression). Under Apache there are two simple ways to do this: Using the mod_deflate Apache module If you have mod_php activated, setting the zlib.output_compression variable…