Project Write-ups

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Friday, July 27, 2018

Testing Encryption - 3 years of Dan Boneh's Online Cryptography Course

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Three years ago in July, I completed Dan Boneh's online cryptography course with distinction through Coursera's Cryptography 1 .  Si...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Wristband Teardown from Amazon's #FireTVSDCC Event at San Diego Comic Con

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A friend returned from San Diego Comic Con 2018 with an RFID bracelet used to track users in the Amazon Fire TV experience (on Twitter, #Fir...
Monday, July 16, 2018

AES CBC Encryption on OpenVMS

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It turns out that using the convenience function ENCRYPT$ENCRYPT_ONE_RECORD on OpenVMS for AES CBC does something squirrelly.  It will not l...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Interacting with OpenVMS on Mac through Terminal.app and iterm2

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Terminal.app and iterm2 can be used on Mac interact with an OpenVMS system by setting the right profile settings and keys with escape sequen...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Quotes from Dan Kaminsky's Keynote at DEF CON China

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Above is Dan Kaminsky's keynote at the inaugural DEF CON China.  It was nominally about Spectre and Meltdown, and I thought it was im...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Postman Masterclass Pt. 2

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Durin g my second Postman meetup as part of the Las Vegas Test Automation group, we were able to cover some of the more advanced features...
Monday, June 4, 2018

27th Quantity Surveyors

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The 27th Surveyors are part of the ground units on the death world Pholos IV.  They remove invasive vegetation from settlements, patrol fo...