Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Android Security Tutorial

https://manifestsecurity.com/android-application-security/

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

Extremely important for day job. I see many instances where things are needlessly made complex.

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Discrete Math and Other Computer Science Links

Discrete Math Book:"Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science" by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik

Combinatorics Book:
Applied Combinatorics" (Roberts & Tessman)

Free Computer Science Courses
http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita

Friday, December 12, 2014

POODLE killed SSL 3.0

Explanation of attack:

"The most severe problem of CBC encryption in SSL 3.0 is that its block cipher padding is
not deterministic, and not covered by the MAC (Message Authentication Code)"
https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf

Another detailed explanation:
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html