encryption
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encryption
This is fun. Network Solutions, not known for their wonderful hosting setup, messed up WordPress configuration, file permissions and basically allowed people hosting on their servers to read everyone else’s authentication information. When it was discovered NetSol tried to spin it as a WordPress problem. WordPress are pissed. But what’s amusing, to me anyway, is their talk of crappy configuration – which they justify with the following WordPress, like all other web applications, must store database connection info in clear text. Encrypting credentials doesn’t matter because the keys have to be stored where the web server...
Today was DDD8, the last DDD event I can do because the rules exclude MS employees from speak and in 10 days time I will be in that category. I presented “A Developer’s Guide to Encryption” (PowerPoint/Sample Code) running through the main options developers have in .NET for cryptography. (The powerpoint deck should have all the spelling checks fixed. I swear those weren’t there on Wednesday when I finished … but I can’t see how anyone could have knobbled it, so I must have just been very fat fingered!) I’m rather sad to leave DDD behind, I’ve presented at...
Yes, I know, it’s painful. You have to run a cryptic command line tool from the .NET framework directory. You have to mess around with RSA keys and export them if you’re load balancing, or want to encrypt on one machine and use it on another. Or you could use a handy tool from Hugo Bonacci. I know, he has a goatee, so he may in fact be evil, but you pays your money and you takes your choice. Point the tool at your server, choose the section you want to encrypt and press, well, press encrypt. There’s even...