Archive for February, 2009

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Quick curiosity…

In regards to real time…
By convention, this function increases at a rate equal to 9192631770 times the period of the radiation emitted by the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state atomic cesium 133, a time unit which people have agreed to call second,
In “Veríssimo P, Rodrigues L.; Distributed Systems for System […]

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Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Tips for safer SSL’ing

Despite what some people (including RapidSSL) said about the recent MD5 collision attack on SSL, the truth is that just because RapidSSL stopped using MD5 for issuing certificates it doesn’t mean the world is safe again.
The researchers were able to create a rogue Certification Authority certificate. That means they have a valid CA certificate, […]

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