Life As It Comes

IBM Java 6 Early Release Program2 Comments

OSNews has linked to the availability of an initial drop of IBM SDK for Java 6.0.

From a security perspective, this most likely (though I have yet to confirm) represents our initial drop back on December 1st.

23 Jan 2007 5:05 pm

Cryptography, IBM, JCE, Java, Security/Privacy

WS-*No Comments

Check out this interview with Andrew Nash.

He’s been involved with many of the WS-* specs; he is currently the CTO of Reactivity and was formerly the Director of Technologies at RSA.

14 Apr 2006 1:53 pm

Cryptography, Security/Privacy

Quantum Crypto in the NewsNo Comments

Is it just me, or is Quantum Cryptography in the news more often these days?

3 May 2004 10:47 am

Cryptography

Spaf in the news1 Comment

Dr. Eugene Spafford is in the news today (The Institute, IEEE). Apparently the campaign for the new computer science building is complete as well.

1 Oct 2003 9:59 am

Cryptography, Purdue, Software

#!/usr/bin/perl
# 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd@mit.edu>
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
# usage: perl -I <k1>:<k2>:<k3>:<k4z>:<k5> qrpff
# where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order

s”$/=\2048;while(<>){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT=”C*”,_)[20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/…$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb25,_;H=73;O=$b[4]<<9
|256|$b[3];Q=Q>>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))<<17,O=O>>8^(E&(F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
^S*8^S<<6))<<9,_=(map{U=_%16orE^=R^=110&(S=(unqT,”\xb\ntd\xbz\x14d”)[_/16%8]);E
^=(72,@z=(64,72,G^=12*(U-2?0:S&17)),H^=_%64?12:0,@z)[_%8]}(16..271))[_]^((D>>=8
)+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}’;s/[D-HO-U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval

Usage: to play a movie whose title key is 0xcd302010fe, do: cat file.vob | perl -I 254:16:32:48:205 qrpff | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -

That makes me happy.

19 Sep 2003 3:09 am