Technology Patents: An Escape
Today while proctoring the CS211 final exam, I was talking to another one of the TAs about cryptology, and we eventually got around to talking about secure hashes, and the so-called “1-way functions”...
View ArticleA few thoughts about perl
I started using perl the other day, and I noticed a few things about it: 1) Perl is really not typesafe, and really doesn’t even have types proper. In fact, the reason why you can’t use true/false is...
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Cracking Windows Passwords with Ophcrack and Rainbow Tables
This is a guide for cracking passwords in Windows under XP, 2000, 98, and 95, all of which use roughly the same architecture. As you know, passwords are stored in windows in a weak hash form, the first...
View ArticleExcellent Perl Tips Article
Perl’s a hard language to work in–it’s not strictly typed, its syntax is non-parseable and ambiguous, and it takes a long time to learn the difference between $, @, and %. Statements mean different...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your Password
You may have read about the tens of millions of usernames and passwords which have been recently been compromised/hacked/leaked on major websites in the last few weeks. If not, here are a few of the...
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