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{ Monthly Archives } February 2011

OpenPGP, Android and RFC 3676

Now that I own an HTC Evo 4g, I’ve noticed that email is less than optimal. I blame the screen size, and the lack of good fonts and font sizes, but nonetheless, I’ve found some annoyances in my life with my Android device, and I’m guessing others are experiencing the same annoyances, be it on [...]

Elliptic Curve Cryptography in OpenSSH

I’ve been meaning to add this as a post, as it’s light and quick, but as the release of OpenSSH 5.7, Elliptic Curve Cryptography has been implemented. Why should you care? The generated keys are substantially smaller, the algorithm is faster and lighter, giving a break to slower CPUs and the cryptanalysis hasn’t shown any [...]

Image Puzzle – 2

In keeping with my previous post almost 4 years ago, these images will circumvent Digital Restrictions Management on Sony PS3 consoles. I have also licensed them under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license. Enjoy!

The Three Laws Robots Can Read

Since first discovering QR codes, I’ve always been a fan. I think they’re a lot of fun, and I totally dig that they are effectively open and free- meaning that anyone can generate and use QR codes without fear of royalty payments, licensing restrictions, etc. I even made my own business cards out of QR [...]

Frustrated with Last.fm

First, get yourself caught up here, so the rest of my post will make sense: http://blog.last.fm/2011/02/07/lastfm-radio-becomes-a-premium-feature-on-mobile-and-home-entertainment-devices I joined Last.fm because it was superior to Pandora Radio to me. I didn’t care much for Pandora, because my stations would radically change based on what I gave as “thumbs up” and “thumbs down”. For example, I would [...]