February 28. 2005 by Del.

This is the ‘ultimate resource’!! Extensive coverage of hardware, software, language, bugs, etc. etc. ddv
Computer Quotes gathered on the Net

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January 22. 2005 by Del.

Update item on encryption built into commercial products. Doesn’t appear to be a very good implementation! ddv

Flaw found in Office encryption Tech News on ZDNet: “The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned. “

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November 10. 2004 by Del.

Another interesting open source project. ddv
WordPress > Home
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

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November 4. 2004 by Del.

The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 2 of 3
Pass phrases are coming into vogue for a number of reasons, one being the development of tools that can crack many passwords in minutes. These tools are not new. Quakenbush Password Appraiser could do this in 1998. What is new is the theory and practice behind the space-time tradeoff, advanced by Dr. Phillippe Oechslin. The time-space tradeoff means that you do not store all possible hashes, which would require more storage than exists in the universe (if you try to store NT hashes). Storing all the NT hashes up to 14 characters for the 76-character character set would require 5,652,897,009 exabytes of storage, which exceeds the capacity of any file system today. Storing all the LM hashes, which only requires 310 terabytes, is still infeasible. To solve this dilemma, Dr. Oechslin came up with a time-space tradeoff where you only store a portion of the hash and its associated passwords. This drastically cuts storage requirements, and with only 17 gigabytes of storage, you can store the LM hashes for the same character set. As we shall see, one of the primary arguments for pass phrases is that they make the storage requirements prohibitive and break the pre-computed hash attacks.

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November 4. 2004 by Del.

Excellent, technical article on the dynamics of security relative to a password. ddv

The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 1 of 3
Information security fosters some interesting debates. The issues range in importance, but they all demonstrate that the field is still growing and exciting. I would like to summarize some of these debates, and offer my own partial entries. For the first set of these articles, I will enter the passwords fray and address the issue of pass phrases versus passwords.

OK, maybe “pass phrases versus passwords” is really “the other great debate” or the “kind of boring and few people care” debate. In any case, which is more secure, pass phrases or passwords? The answer is not as clear-cut as it may seem.

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October 17. 2004 by Del.

Great resource for East Tennessee!! ddv

East Tennessee mountain bike rides

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September 14. 2004 by Del.

A great FREE add-in to Outlook. But the best part is that this indexing utility goes after everything on your system: Outlook messages, tasks, files on your hard drive, etc. Obviously it uses an index for fast speed - blazing by comparison to the MSFT find tools. ddv 9-14-2004

Lookout email search for Microsoft Outlook - Lookout Software

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July 31. 2004 by Del.

Blogger Forum

more information than you really need to keep blogging. Interesting that a blogging forum is traditional “forum”!! ddv

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June 26. 2004 by Del.

infoSync World : IEEE approves 802.11i security spec: “The IEEE has approved yet another specification in the 802.11 family of wireless ethernet. This time it’s a new Wi-Fi security standard, dubbed 802.11i.

Adding to the alphabet soup that is the Wi-Fi family of protocols, the IEEE has approved a new wireless security protocol dubbed 802.11i, intended to finally provide sufficient security for wireless connections that users don’t need to rely on alternate security layers. “

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June 25. 2004 by Del.

CFOdirect Network - Financial reporting service on FASB standards, US GAAP rules, International Accounting Standards, FAS 142, financial risk management, internal audit department, treasury systems: “Spreadsheet Hell

CFOs are interested in the many new technologies being pitched to them, but are they really trapped in spreadsheet hell?

Don Durfee
CFO IT Magazine”

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