Paul picks up on an article by Pam about level of assurance with Windows CardSpace. He emphasizes the important point that assurance is not only affected by the underlying technology, but also by non-technical parameters like contracts. I would go…
When you are working with Glassfish (like I am doing now), you might need to capture your HTTPS traffic. In an earlier post, I explained how to capture and decrypt any SSL/TLS traffic, as long as you have the server…
Sorry, due to a recent surge in Trackbacks, I have deactivated this feature for the time being. Spammers are really an annoying bunch … What made it now just unbearable is that my blog was being misused to advertise the…
It seems that history is about to repeat itself: after Liberty formed, a lot of people wither felt left out or did not understand what all this ‘identity stuff’ was good for. Granted, Liberty was in 2002 about 5 years…
Wireshark can decrypt SSL traffic as long as you have the server private key. This can be extremely useful, if you have to debug HTTPS traffic and cannot use HTTP instead or put a MITM in the front (e.g. Windows…
keytool is a useful utility for dealing with Java keystores, but it has a significant disadvantage: you can not export private keys with a certificate using keytool. Therefore, the only thing you can so is to add the certificate as…
Ok – I just upgraded my blog engine to the 2.0 release of dasBlog. A big “Thank you!”to the team for keeping up the great work. One thing that does seem to work again is comments – so please giv…
Electronic health record are a very touchy subject, since these affect some of the most personal data. While a usable and reliable system for such electronic records would certainly save a lot of money and also prevent even more health-care…
Dare Obasanjo offers a very balanced view on the recent announcement by Microsoft to release the .NET 3.5 source under a highly restrictive license. He writes: This is one of those announcements I find hard to get excited about. Any developer…
I just ran across this song (from 2006) called “Download this Song” by MC Lars. You can certainly debate the quality of the song itself (although I still very much like “The Passenger”), but the point he is trying to…