A friend of mine recently convinced me to take a class on quantum computing. The class just started, but I'm already learning interesting things.
For example, one student linked to a lecture on quantum physics which explains it as a generalization of probability theory which allows for complex numbers (although …
Today, I found an interesting article about password timing attacks. The basic point is that if you check a password one character at a time, the amount of time it takes to recieve a "bad password" response tells you how many characters you got right.
This weekend, my roommate asked me to make a website for him. I wrote it in PHP so I could just make some templates and he could import them, but it bothered me that I was rendering a static website with PHP. The easiest solution seemed to be running every …
I set up an SSL certificate for this site today and it was surprisingly easy.
Last time I wanted a free certificate, it was a huge pain. This time it was actually easy. A Google search for "ssl certificates stackoverflow" lead me to the Cheapest web certificates question, which has …