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I came across oEmbed the other day, completely by accident. I've been working on a couple of projects in my free time and in a few of them I really wanted to be able to embed better information about a URL, if it existed. I'd been working up my own rough JSON...

A few days ago I posted suggesting that you salt your passwords, I'm back armed with even more knowledge and better advice. Turns out the relative strengths of one hashing algorithm vs another can in fact make a difference, in a way I didn't even consider - their speed.  Most crypto...

I don't think Chrome OS is going to be a success. It's perfect for Google, shows that all you really need is a browser and does it in a compelling way. But it's not going to be a success and I'll cast my lot in with those that predict that...

Gawker media is the latest in a long list of compromised systems that have exposed user passwords. Unlike when it happened to the ASF a few months ago, I'm unaffected. Forbes and others are banging on about weak encryption being the problem, it's not. Passwords aren't encrypted generally, they're passed through a one way hash function....

I've been using a self-signed client certificate on my development server. Today working on my OAuth lib I started getting problems connecting to twitter, failed SSH handshakes. With a message something like: Connection has been shutdown: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested targetIt's...