Jiri’s Notepad

Fascinating article outlining the presentation of Yahoo’s chief scientist from IEEE’s Symposium on Security and Privacy. Surprisingly (or not) big service providers’ security issues revolve around users cheating their way through the systems or “violations and exploitations of the service”. Examples of such attacks include spam, ratings forgery in auction sites, rankings forgery on game […]

First off, there is System.Security.Cryptography namespace of the Microsoft .NET CLR:

This namespace allows programmatic access to a variety of cryptographic services that you can incorporate into your applications to encrypt and decrypt data, ensure data integrity, and handle digital signatures and certificates. [MSDN via Sam Gentile’s Radio Weblog ]

The namespace provides RSA, DSA, DES, TripleDES, […]

According to Sid Bulloch,  head information technology strategist with Dundee City Council, getting started needn’t mean starting with questions about technology: “Don’t concentrate on the techy issues first, but do think about what applications you can use for  smartcards,” he says. [e-government bulletin]

At least I am not alone who thinks that security without applications is […]