Archive for April, 2008

Java Cryptography Compatibility

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

One relatively standard way to identify someone is to generate a small token which you can give to them, and which they can later give back to you. This is a classic “user cookie” scenario. The ID could be any data which is unique, but it should also be hard fake - you shouldn’t [...]

Gentle Return

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I hope to start posting again, and was planning on writing something serious, but then I saw this, and it struck a chord.

Computer Being Stupid
CAMBRIDGE, MA—After multiple attempts to get the thing to do the thing, 38-year-old freelance writer Joe Garvin gave up Saturday, citing the…

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