Monthly Archives: September 2007

Mathematicians and Cryptographers

Neal Koblitz published paper “The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography” at Notices of the American Mathematical Society. This article has been commented on Bruce Schneier’s blog on security and rebuttals came from Oded Goldreich, Hugo Krawczyk, Jonathan Katz, Luca … Continue reading

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Oracle 11g Password Cracker

This tool can crack passwords which are encrypted using Oracle’s latest SHA1 based password protection algorithm. Continue reading

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Does an Expert Need Antivirus Software?

This is a very interesting question that Steve Riley talked about in recent post on his blog (here). And of course, a number of people have asked him if he is recommending such a stance to other individuals or to … Continue reading

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8th IEEE International Conference – TELSIKS 2007

8th IEEE International Conference – TELSIKS 2007 will take place from September 26 – 28, 2007 in Nis, Serbia. Visit conference site here. Paper titled “Reduction of False Positive Intrusions by Using Neural Nets” which I worked on with couple … Continue reading

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What They Know About You

Ordinary users of search engines, bank portals, e-commerce sites usually don’t care about all various data that these keep about Web site visitors in order to learn more about their behavior, habits and preferences. In article Barclays Manipulates Online Sales … Continue reading

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