Archive for June, 2008

¡ʇǝʎ ǝpoɔıun ɹoɟ ǝsn ʇsǝq ǝɥʇ

Friday, June 20th, 2008

With all the talk about the next version of Delphi fully supporting Unicode, I was pretty excited to find:

¡ʇǝʎ ǝpoɔıun ɹoɟ ǝsn ʇsǝq ǝɥʇ

Well, maybe the best use for those of us who typically only need to use standard ASCII characters. . . .

PasswordMaker

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Ever since I discovered PasswordMaker.org, I’ve been recommending it, especially in my cryptography trainings.  What it does is take a hash of your super secret password with the url of current site and creates a password.  Your super secret password is never transmitted, and since the hash is secure, it cannot be reversed to your password.  So each site has a different password, so if any one of them is compromised, then you only need to reset that one password.

Joel was looking for a solution to his password storage and syncronization issue over at StackOverflow. So I sent him an MP3 quote and they played it on their podcast.  Joel liked the solution, Jeff not so much, but his solution is to just memorize a few passwords.

Their podcast is hosted by IT Conversations now.  They played at 57:14 – The audio quality isn’t great.